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...Lynn M. Klein, vice president of the ALS Association, said in a phone interview yesterday that the discovery could lead to more accurate genetic counseling and testing...
...woman could not be reached for comment yesterday. Her attorney, Lynn Weissberg, and the woman's mother would not comment...
Achilles sulked in his tent because Agamemnon denied him his just plunder in war, the beauty Briseis. "Rape has always been endemic with armies," says John A. Lynn, military-history professor at the University of Illinois. "There have been armies in which rape was treated as a disciplinary problem, and armies in which it was institutionalized. In most European armies in the first half of the 17th century, rapes by unpaid soldiers occurred in large numbers in front of officers and were not stopped because they were part of the quid pro quo of what you got for being...
Once there were even elaborate rules about permissible rape in war. Lynn mentions an early European convention: if a besieged town surrendered in timely fashion, its women would be spared rape. If the town resisted, wholesale rape was justified. Says Lynn: "That kind of legitimized rape had a political reason -- to intimidate other towns to surrender without resistance...
...medley relay team of freshman Alexa Zeisger, sophmore Deborah Kory, senior Lynn Kelley, and senior Laura Alonso posted a time of 1:51.33 to spot Harvard to a 15-2 lead after one event...