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Rape could not regularly occur in a campus environment that destroyed its protective privacy as a "personal misunderstanding" and exposed it as the social disease it is. Maybe in such an environment the next man who tries to force sex would actually leave his mind and snap--snap right out of his socially imposed deafness and hear the word "no" the way it is meant to be heard. Maybe he would realize the woman really doesn't want to have sex, no matter how much he might want her to. It's such a little thing, but it would mean...
...planners are said to have wrestled with such issues as what to do if the President dies and how to deal with masses of dead or severely ill citizens, considerations reminiscent of civil-defense planning for nuclear war. The planners are so certain that another worldwide epidemic will occur that they refer to the present as the "interpandemic period...
...certainly building the pressure on the only other person who knows what did or did not occur when the doors were closed. Lewinsky and her lawyers began the week thinking they were about to tell their story at last. Ginsburg sent in his written proffer on Monday along with the agreement written by Starr's office granting Monica immunity. The two sides, Ginsburg claims, agreed on a schedule of interviews in which Lewinsky would sit down through the week with FBI agents in California. Satisfied that the immunity dance was finally over, the whole traveling circus left town...
...existence of such a dress. Nevertheless, the dress story provides a window on the tough judgment calls about facts, and sources of facts, that must be made in reporting difficult-to-confirm stories in today's lightning-paced media environment. And it shows the occasional slipups that occur as a story reverberates through today's journalistic echo chamber, changing slightly each time it is repeated...
STROKE SURGE Stroke incidence in the U.S. is dramatically higher than once thought. Some 700,000 occur each year, 40% more than previously estimated...