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...fellow prisoner's escape by "distracting" their lascivious jailer. This prompts one of several debates with Colin (the penis) over who's really in control of the marquis' body. The marquis must accept the consequences each time he uses his companion Colin. His imprisonment and the political furor raging around him prompts a realization of the links between greed and art, opression and decadence, lust and autonomy. Sex is the nexus of these various concerns...
...Clinton moves quickly to name a successor, it is likely that the furor will die out. Chief of staff McLarty and counselor Bruce Lindsey will oversee the new selection process. To his credit, Clinton assumed full responsibility for the blunder. Moreover, once the nomination began to crumble, he retreated swiftly, recovering with some grace from a nasty stumble...
Clinton tried to depersonalize the conflict, saying that if Saddam "wants a different relationship" with the U.S. and U.N., "all he has to do is change his behavior." But when the hints that he might "normalize" relations provoked a furor, Clinton backed off, saying it was "almost inconceivable that we can have good relations with Iraq" while Saddam remains in power...
Lost in the furor was precisely what Clinton is proposing. Under Department of Defense regulations, which were strongly criticized in a General Accounting Office report earlier this year, simply being homosexual is enough to provoke expulsion without any evidence of misconduct. Since 1982, more than 14,000 people have been kicked out of the military; women were six times as likely to be expelled as men in what has often amounted to witch-hunts. Clinton takes great care to emphasize the difference between sexual orientation and conduct. % Simple homosexual proclivity, he argued, should not be grounds for expulsion. "Clinton...
...sort of compromise on date rape, but the truth is that it will make little difference. My female first-years may go on to be All-Ivy, make Phi Beta Kappa or maybe just write for The Crimson. But one in four of them will be raped. All the furor may have raised consciousnesses but it hasn't lowered any statistics...