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...because they're preoccupied these days with their own factional matters, such as the great standoff over the subject of victimhood. On the pro-victimhood side are the legions of domestic-abuse specialists who see Lorena Bobbitt as one more martyr in women's long, weepy history of rape and abuse. On the anti side are feminist authors like Naomi Wolf and Wendy Kaminer, who claim that women have been turning away from feminism because they're sick and tired of hearing about victims and "victimology": foot binding, battering, genital mutilation, witch burnings and the like. Time to stop whining...
...morning last semester to find that dream come true. Ewart Yearwood, a 5-ft. 11-in., 185-lb. Hispanic freshman from New York City, met petite Alexis Clinansmith, product of Michigan and the International School of Paris, not long after both watched the obligatory orientation-week video on date rape. They agree on how their "relationship" started: he picked her out of the freshman "face book" and decided he wanted to date her; they chatted at a party, crossed paths around the campus and talked on the grass one night. She told him she had a boyfriend; he observed that...
...justice and law. Gaddis' chief litigant is Oscar Crease, a self-described "last civilized man" who brings suit to prove that his high-minded (and unproduced) stage play was stolen by the producers of a big-screen Civil War blood spurter that features "the most widely discussed mass rape scene in screen history." Crease is also suing his insurance company, which isn't paying him for injuries suffered when his stalled car suddenly ran over him. His father, a cagey federal judge, is hearing the case of an artist who wants | to save his public sculpture from being dismantled...
Within hours of that explosion, the Administration affirmed the policy that had so exercised the President, a Health and Human Services Department order directing the states to help pay for abortions for low-income women in cases of rape or incest. The states, including many that finance abortions liberally, are in an uproar over it. They contend that the Federal Government should only rarely dictate rules to the states and that serious consultation should take place when such mandates are considered -- as one of the President's own Executive Orders directs. Beyond the absence of dialogue -- HHS's bolt came...
...House is now supporting a dramatic exception to Clinton's philosophy is a tale of bureaucratic intrigue, complete with bitter recriminations between the White House and HHS. The tale began late on Dec. 23. Congress had earlier allowed for the possibility of federally funded abortions in the cases of rape and incest, an expansion of its long-standing mandate to pay when the mother's life is endangered. After dawdling for months, HHS decided that the new law meant states must fund such abortions or risk losing their Medicaid dollars -- a legal interpretation other Administration lawyers dispute. As procedure dictates...