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...didn't know the difference between consensual sex and rape. I didn't know that when my husband wanted sex, I could say no. I didn't know that when a psychiatrist sticks his finger in your vagina, it isn't therapy. How could I not know these things...
...Harvard history. We lost the Hunt by a distance that is immeasurably small. A distance that I have only evoked once--to explain to my roommates how close I was to going to Brown. "You know," I asked them, "when you hold your thumb and index finger really close together, and you peek through the crack, and pretty soon it looks like they're touching, but they're not really...
...produced by two independent right-wing groups, was intended to bolster Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas' confirmation chances by pointing the finger at three liberal Democrats who seemed likely to oppose him. Not coincidentally, the ad was produced by the same people who launched the 1988 Willie Horton spot that branded Michael Dukakis soft on crime but left George Bush open to charges of racism. Anxious not to be associated with such negative campaigning this time around, Bush quickly labeled the attacks on the Senators "counterproductive." Thomas pronounced them "vicious." His chief Senate supporter, Missouri Republican John Danforth, called them...
...putsch, were formally accused of treason, an offense punishable by imprisonment or death. The latest to be arrested was Anatoli Lukyanov, former chairman of the Supreme Soviet, who was ! taken into custody on Friday. During a session of the parliament earlier in the week devoted largely to finger pointing or to attempts by some members to convince others that they had nothing to do with the conspiracy, Lukyanov's voice was one of the shrillest. "I could never be a traitor to a man I've known for 40 years," he said, referring to his law-school classmate. Gorbachev obviously...
...music everywhere, on the air and on MTV, seems noisier than ever. Every time you change a channel it seems like some rapper is sticking his finger in your face: Yo! Listen...