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...flap has masked the fact that the book does expose some embarrassing exaggerations in feminist literature, along with much p.c. silliness on the part of Sommers' academic feminist colleagues. Most strikingly, it debunks author Naomi Wolf's assertion that 150,000 American women die each year in a "holocaust" of anorexia; the number is closer to 100. Similarly, Sommers claims that feminists exaggerate the extent of rape, wife battering and discrimination against girls in the classroom. She criticizes a much publicized study finding that girls' self-esteem plunges at puberty. For one thing, the same study finds that black girls...
Correcting a previously flawed study, the American Jewish Committee released a new Roper poll showing that 91% of Americans believe the Nazi Holocaust really happened. A 1992 Roper poll set off alarm bells when a confusing question yielded results indicating that 22% doubted that the Nazi extermination of Jews occurred...
...dissonance, and their lyrics as usual have an eloquent, freewheeling wordiness. "I'm just a mirror of a mirror of myself," Saliers declares on Least Complicated. On This Train Revised, Ray reshapes the classic song This Train into a forceful, impressionistic account of her visit to Washington's U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum: "Piss and blood in a railroad car/ 100 people gypsies queers and David's star...
Israel and the Vatican put 46 years of stony silence behind them by establishing full diplomatic relations today. The ground-breaking agreement, cemented last Dec. 31, signals a reconciliation with Jews led by Pope John Paul II, whose native Poland witnessed many of the atrocities of the Holocaust. Vatican sources told TIME Rome bureau chief John Moody that the announcement was likely held back almost two months as the Pontiff waited for recent Mideast unrest to subside: "The final part of the negotiations was a bit harder than anybody had anticipated...
...know anything about the Holocaust,"he says. "We were wrapped up in Harvard, and thenwe got drafted...