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...promiscuity for the incident. In another high profile rape case in 1991, William Kennedy Smith, a nephew of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, was charged with raping Patricia Bowman at the Kennedy estate in Florida. His defense team hired private investigators to look into Bowman’s background and obtain her medical records. The defense lawyers explained to the media that they wanted the files because they suspected that Bowman was mentally disturbed and promiscuous. While the judge ultimately excluded the evidence, the highly publicized controversy shifted the public’s attention to her motives—instead...
...poor people over 18—based on the belief that adults are to blame for their own misery—we can all agree that the 12 million children living in poverty bear no responsibility for their plight. But these children, like their parents, lack the means to obtain the most basic of food, clothing and housing. The official poverty level for a family of four, only $18,392, amounts to far less than it costs in most parts of the country to maintain a basic standard of living. Even though this number has been adjusted for inflation since...
...book was conceived while she was researching her last work, The Ultimate Terrorists. Instead of studying her subjects from afar, Stern decided to actually call some of the individuals who had tried to obtain chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction. What she found was a startling perspective on the mystery surrounding religious militants...
...don’t be so quick to celebrate. Decreasing the price of CDs fails to address the greater issue of why people would ever choose to pay for something they can obtain for free. In the short run, consumers benefit; in the long run, however, record stores would close (like the former HMV Records on Brattle Street), and pop musicians would bypass Lou Perlman’s office for places in the Business School. With no money to be made, there will be no music industry in twenty-five years. Seems like we’ve finally identified...
...There are widespread reports of hunger, alleviated only by food donated by the World Food Program and the U.S. Agency for International Development. But widespread food distribution, especially in areas that had voted against Mugabe, was hampered and limited. The best indicators predict that because farmers cannot obtain fertilizer, take out bank loans or depend on any consistent law and order, hunger and starvation will only escalate in the months to come...