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CONGRESS isn't the only arm of government making these odd linguistic judgments on rape. In its human rights reports on the U.S.-backed government in El Salvador, the State Department has taken to calling rape--standard punishment for women political prisoners--a form of "psychological torture," as distinct from beatings and burnings, which are placed in a category of physical torture. How, exactly, can a man "psychologically", and not physically, rape a woman...
...anti-flag-burning legislation as part of a plan for derailing any change in the Constitution, the White House reiterated its preference for an amendment but stopped short of threatening a veto. In late September Bush broke weeks of silence on the abortion issue by praising the "protection of human life" to a group of Catholic lawyers in Boston. But his Justice Department will not make oral arguments in any of the three abortion cases that will come before the Supreme Court this term...
...automatic gunfire. In a corner of the room, elephant tails, rancid and maggot infested, lie in a heap. Behind the building, skulls bleach in the sun. And just up a slope, an orphaned elephant greedily nurses on a bottle of formula and suckles at the fingers of its human keeper. Unless led away, an orphan will linger by its fallen mother until it collapses from starvation or thirst. And a mature elephant coming across a carcass, even one streaked with vulture droppings, will try to rouse it to life with a gentle prod of its hind...
...matter what happens this week in Lausanne, the elephant will still be in some peril. Even if the ivory trade winds down, the elephant will face increasing encroachment from Africa's fast-growing human populations. African farmers or herdsmen trying to eke out a living covet the vast habitats set aside for animals and cannot understand why scarce financial resources go to protect elephants while people go hungry. To many Africans, the elephant is a five-ton nuisance that can trample a season's maize in seconds. As long as they feel that way, they will turn a blind...
From "Witchcraft and the Human Need forControl," by Abigail A. Kohn '90, IndependentStudy for the department of Folklore andMythology, Spring...