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Social roles are strongly defined in Indian society, says Krishnan, and people tend not to talk about sex. The social pressure remains intense for men to prove their masculinity and women their fertility. Indian women may be making more decisions about household buying or their children's education, but they remain sexually submissive, still marry early (average age: 17) and tend to defer to men about whether a condom will be used...
...homes and murdering their owners. The fighters were drunk with bloodlust and slivovitz, but they were also led by the invisible hand of Milosevic's secret police, who organized, armed and supplied them. It was the link between Milosevic and these crimes that my testimony was intended to help prove...
...some of Milosevic's queries were too ludicrous to be taken seriously. He implied, for example, that I was part of a vast anti-Serb conspiracy that also included Harvard University, a number of human-rights groups and various media outlets. He spent a lot of time trying to prove that my story was nothing but irrelevant hearsay. I tried to describe what I had seen in Vukovar as simply and clearly as possible. It may have been the most important thing I will ever do. After my testimony was over I felt as if a great burden had been...
...project’s effects on air and soil quality. “The fact that you won’t give them to the community makes me want them even more,” Decker said, “Why choose this little battle if not to prove to the City of Cambridge that we’re not the boss of you—because that’s a little bit the game we’re playing right now?” Cambridge’s director of environmental health, Sam Lipson, reviews the monthly evaluations...
...American news. One audience member asked Rather about the media’s ability to balance national security interests with the public’s right to know. Rather said he thought sensitive information should be printed and that the burden ought to be placed on the government to prove why information should not be printed. Of the recent controversial Danish cartoons, Rather said that while he thinks the Danish newspaper was right to publish them, “it might not have been the right thing for everybody, everywhere...