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...donned a short skirt and fur jacket merely to see what trouble she can stir. She invites him to her dingy basement apartment for coffee and starts telling him about her life as the daughter of a communist partisan. They forge a friendship, with Chris visiting Roza often to listen to her tales of the mundane (pets, first loves and summer camp) and the sensational - war, incest and rape. "I don't know why I am telling you all this," says Roza. "It's not important, it's just memories...
...Rankin said in an e-mailed statement.Men often feel as though they are being “bashed” during conversations about sexual assault, said Van Niel, when this is not the case at all.But “when another man challenges [men] on their attitude, they listen differently,” Rankin said.Van Niel said he agrees: “I wish it weren’t that way, but where we are in our culture, a man taking a positive, progressive stance on this issue speaks more to men than a woman doing...
...also a professor at U. of C.'s Divinity School. "Not because it's radical - it isn't radical in its context. But it would be safer to join a North Side ecumenical church - the sort of place where people are quiet. They stand up, sit down, listen and leave...
...Part of the reluctance of academics to speak out against the war stemmed from their impression that no one in the Bush administration would listen if they...
...couldn’t understand why there was so much passivity,” he said about the atmosphere at Harvard when the war in Iraq began five years ago. “Nobody wanted to listen. Nobody did what should have been done...