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...editor Max Frankel as saying, "This is a crisis, because many people feel the Times betrayed its standards." In a separate editor's note, the Times also said it "regrets" that its original article might have given the impression that the newspaper challenged the woman's account of her ordeal...
Ultimately, naming victims may turn less on its legality than on whether secrecy is viewed as a misguided form of protection that perpetuates the victim's sense of shame. Estrich, who was raped in 1974, wrote a book about her ordeal in 1987 in the hope of persuading other victims to come forward. But like most feminists, she vehemently opposes the "outing" of rape victims without their consent. "It serves no purpose," she says. "Has the public gotten any more information it needed? The answer is no. Has a woman been branded and humiliated, her ability to go on with...
...arrived this fall at Harvard eager and ready to do battle with the shunned computer QRR test. What I hoped would be taken care of early on has become a long, drawn-out, stressful ordeal. Taking advantage of help provided by the "QRR tutors" in the Science Center computer terminal room, I signed up for a test in early fall, only to walk out midway through, clueless as to how to get the computer to give the correct amount of change in pennies...
...been a gleaming metropolis. It was backlighted by towering orange flames on the horizon where hundreds of oil wells, torched by fleeing Iraqis, continued to burn and block the midday sun with huge curtains of dense black smoke. The eerie pall was a visible symbol of the dark ordeal Kuwait had lived through during the Iraqi occupation and a final, horrifying week of murder, kidnapping and destruction...
...addition, Malcolm Browne's recent cover story in The New York Times Magazine complained about "those [in the military community] who regard us as enemies." And Browne implied that the press pool system, which "goads people into taking unnecessary--or necessary--risks," was responsible for the ordeal of the CBS crew which was captured and tortured by Iraqi soldiers...