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WOMAN, AS MAN'S most personal and vulnerable possession, became and remained the major battleground on which men proved their superiority to one another. Sometimes, as in the days of chivalrous knights, men jousted for the hand of the other's maiden--indirect rape. More often, however, rape has not been clothed so discreetly with societal justification, rather, it has openly defied society's laws and lawmakers. Eldrige Cleaver in Soul on Ice explained what motivated him to rape this...

Author: By Sarah Crichton, | Title: Unlocking Rape | 11/6/1975 | See Source »

...week, Vatican Radio broadcast an interview with Corrado Manni, a physician at Rome's Catholic University who specializes in resuscitation. He remarked that a decision to remove the respirator that is keeping Karen Quinlan alive would be "extremely dangerous," and his fellow doctors must not accept even an indirect form of euthanasia (mercy killing), "which renounces therapy." The Vatican daily L'Osservatore Romano then published a similar commentary by one of its staff members, Father Gino Concetti. He wrote: "It is impossible to support the claim of the right of 'death with dignity.' A right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: If Death Shall Be No More | 11/3/1975 | See Source »

Suddenly, Columbia reversed the game's momentum with two quick goals. The first came at 24:24 by an indirect kick, on a play where Ford Said "it seemed like the guys were sleeping." Only two minutes later, the Lions tallied again on a scramble following a corner kick...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Booters Stage Comeback to Top Columbia, 3-2 | 10/14/1975 | See Source »

...left Danville to drive back into San Francisco shortly after 11 a.m., Moore made a final desperate but still indirect effort to have her deadly mission averted. She headed west in her Toyota along Route 24 toward the Oakland-Bay Bridge and jammed down the accelerator, speeding at about 70 m.p.h. At the same time, she slipped six soft-nosed cartridges into her new revolver. "I was driving fast, loading the revolver and hoping I would get stopped for speeding," she claimed later. But no one stopped her, and she drove directly to the Union Square underground parking garage across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SHOOTING: FORD'S SECOND CLOSE CALL | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

Although the visitors held something of a territorial advantage in the first half, they never mounted any sort of testing attack against the Cliffe defense. A few short corners, equivilent to an indirect penalty kick in soccer, went by the board for SMU as Radcliffe cage tender and co-Captain Carlene Rhodes hung tough in goal...

Author: By Richard J. Doherty, | Title: Radcliffe Hockey Battles SMU; Corsairs Tie Stickwomen 0-0 | 10/3/1975 | See Source »

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