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There is a frightening tendency to separate ourselves from "rape" by boxing it up and throwing it into jail with the rest of "crime." Many people assume that rape is a "street" phenomenon and rapists are rabid monsters who eventually land behind bars. This attitude is not helpful considering most rapists never go to jail and those rapists at Harvard are never even tried. We should spend more time punishing rapists in our community than we do punishing survivors...
Still, killing 100,000 people is a serious thing to do. It is not equivalent to shooting a rabid dog, which is, down deep, what Americans feel the war was all about, exterminating a beast with rabies. All those 100,000 men were not megalomaniacs, torturers and murderers. They did not all commit atrocities in Kuwait. They were ordinary people: peasants, truck drivers, students and so on. They had the love of their families, the dignity of their lives and work. They cared as little for politics, or less, than most people in the world. They were, precisely, not Saddam...
...striking example of this denial can be seen in some recent reactions to acquaintance rape--now declared a "PC" issue and thus an hystericized red herring presented by rabid feminists to emasculate...
...Crimson (11-3 overall, 3-1 league) dropped a heartbreaker in five games to Springfield College in league play last night. After a slow start, Harvard clawed its way back from a two-game deficit before succumbing to a pumped-up Springfield team before a rabid crowed of volleyball fanatics...
...Rink is aptly nicknamed, was not swimming with noise Saturday. Because of a lack of students--enjoying their vacation, no doubt--the capacity crowd was strangely silent, even with the Elis leading, 4-0. Yale still was able to cruise to its fourth staight home victory without the dangerous, rabid fans New Haven is famous for--maybe one of those partisan spectators will bite goaltender Ray Letourneau--who stymied the Crimson--if Harvard and yale meet again in the ECAC playoffs...