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What Morgan overlooks in his article, and acquaintance rapists overlook in their crimes, is that a woman must have the option of playing the game or not. No matter what she is wearing or how much she flirts or whether or not she kisses him first, a woman always has the right to say "Stop." She has the right to change her mind. She has the right to set her own limits to the game...
...that helps a citizen collect Medicare benefits and service that consists of organizing secret meetings and high-level luncheons or making threatening calls to federal regulators. While large sums changed hands, the report pointed out, no one was personally enriched by Keating's largesse. Nonetheless the committee seemed to overlook the fact that, among those who lust for power, money in the campaign treasury is a much bigger carrot than money in the pocket...
...members. Those commitments should by no means imply the passive acceptance of the hurtful and obstinate actions of these past few days. As a community, we must not be indifferent to the issues raised nor to the manner in which expressions are made. We must also not overlook the grievous ignorance reflected in these actions...
Some countries, on the other hand, have shown that they can overlook the death penalty even while they officially decry it. Mexico and the U.S., for example, have an extradition treaty similar to the U.S.-Canada pact. But in 1989, Mexican authorities received no guarantees of mercy from the U.S. before swiftly deporting Ramon Salcido, 29, who had escaped to Mexico after a killing spree in California. Last December, Salcido was convicted on seven counts of murder and sentenced to death. He has appealed and is in San Quentin Prison. In his case, Mexican officials felt that good cross-border...
...Students massacred in China, priests murdered in Central America, demonstrators gunned down in Lithuania -- these acts of violence are as wrong as Iraqi soldiers' killing civilians. We cannot oppose repression in one place and overlook it in another...