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...portray the divestment movement merely as a victim of national trends. Yes, time was working against the movement, but with the proper strategies and medication, the cause could have lingered on a few more years...
...Hanson and Levin cases are vivid reminders that defense attorneys frequently try to portray female victims of sexual crimes as either sluts or teases. "Blaming the victim is a very sexist defense," says Kelli Conlin of the National Organization for Women. "It started with rape cases. The idea was 'She asked for it.' " In recent years, though, new rape-shield laws have excluded from trials evidence regarding a rape victim's sexual past, except any previous relationship with the alleged attacker...
Still, Labor and the Alliance are giving away nothing. Labor intends to . attack the government's record on unemployment -- which has doubled since Thatcher took office in 1979 -- and propose increased public spending. It also plans to portray the Tories as insensitive and uncaring in health, education and housing policies. The Alliance strategy is to present the centrist alternative: more liberal than the Tories on social issues but more conservative than Labor on foreign and defense policy. Recent by-election victories have shown increasing receptivity to the Alliance as an alternative to the two main parties. For their part...
With much bravado, the Kabul government now contends that the seven-year- old mujahedin rebellion will fade away once its support from Pakistan and the U.S. ceases. Explained a Western diplomat in Kabul last week: "The Soviets are going to portray the Pakistanis as aggressive and to justify even more pressure on Islamabad." As part of its reconciliation drive, Kabul has downplayed the threat from the rebels and begun referring to them not as "counterrevolutionar ies" but as "opposition forces...
Although this guide is not intended as a complete description of urban living in America, it does try to portray the general feeling. Life, as Hobbes once put it, is "nasty, brutish, short, and the rent's way too high"--a statement even truer today, since the invention of carcinogens and condos...