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According to Task Force member Naomi Hamburg, those of the report's rape provisions that govern sexual intercourse, including such activities as vaginal sex and fellatio, apply penalties only to male offenders. The provisions permit the Administrative Board to sanction men for engaging in sex with a willing partner whom the Board later deems was incapable of "reasoned consent" because of alcohol intake. According to report coauthor Dean Janet Viggiani, mere alcohol influence, rather than full-fledged intoxication, can justify a rape conviction. A man can be convicted even if the sexual act was non-forcible and initiated...
President Bush, however, says that he will permit no such thing. The president travelled to Tennessee Wednesday to drum up support and is beginning to take Buchanan seriously...
...Given our continuous denial of the presence of racism and anti-Semitism in our society, I believe it is crucial to permit the Jeffries and David Dukes of this world to openly express their views--and in so doing, confront ourselves with the painful reality of the bigotry present among us and the need for continuous work to combat...
...courthouse last July to protest a monument to Confederate soldiers. Since the city has no ordinance prohibiting flag burning, Hamilton was found guilty of violating a ban on illegal burning. Judge Lee Irvin told Hamilton that if he wanted to burn the flag, he should have sought a permit. Hamilton, who insists his right of free expression was violated, does not accept the judge's explanation. Says he: "The process to get a permit is designed to make sure that no one gets...
...must be experienced on the spot, if we permit the building to lead us, in terms of what it means, straight down the nave to stand at last in the crossing at heaven's gate. There, emphatically, we feel it rise up beyond matter around us. Our flesh is not denied, but transcended. We are in the center of an expanding universe. Then, in truth at the edge of vision, but well inside its limits, the great roses lift and spring in a harmony like that of the spheres...