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...personal, private or cultural matter. Genital mutilation has not been seen as a type of harm." The feminist mainstream has been particularly galvanized by the highly personalized documentary film and book on female-genital mutilation, Warrior Marks, co-authored by novelist Alice Walker. Walker sees it as a heinous form of patriarchal oppression, characterized by "the feeling of being overpowered and thoroughly dominated by those you are duty bound to respect." About 25 countries in Africa engage in mutilation: an estimated 98% of women are "circumcised" in Djibouti and Somalia, 90% in Ethiopia, 80% in Sudan, 75% in Mali. Walker...
Other students had similar experience. One sophomore, who chose to remain anonymous, says her formal was "heinous...
...African-American community, and no one else is highlighting them." She cites his attack on welfare as "subsidizing single women to have babies," his complaint that the Federal Government spends more on prisons than on education and his charge that white-collar crime is not considered as heinous as other offenses. In meetings with the Congressional Black Caucus, Farrakhan proposed unconventional rehabilitation methods -- one member recalls a plan to transport prisoners and addicts to Africa as an alternative to the chaos of the ghetto -- and was hailed for offering creative alternatives to standard treatment. Eric Adams, president of New York...
Hockey. The North Stars. A cinderella run to the 1991 Stanley Cup Finals. And owner Norm Green's heinous heist of the only professional hockey team from a state where the sport is revered as an institution on the order of church and family...
...Religion followers enjoy theband's lyrics as much as they enjoy its music. Onprevious albums, BR's lyric sheet has been studdedwith words like "myoma" and "rectilinear." Theband has labelled the Middle East "the fertilecrescent," and has sarcastically referred toOperation Rescue as "the rectifying troop" whichalone can "stop the heinous wrongdoing and verifyour moral benevolence as a people." Of course,since Bad Religion's chief lyricist holds a Ph.D.in English literature from Cornell, a certainamount of long-winded pretentiousness is perhapsinevitable...