Word: rapes
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EQUALLY IRRELEVANT is whether the couple had been sexually intimate before. Are we to assume that once a woman sleeps with someone she is rightfully his thereafter? This attitude is only a more modern version of the one exhibited by those who oppose the criminalization of spousal rape. Alabama Senator Jeremiah Denton couldn't have put this offensive idea more eloquently: "When a man gets married he expects he's going to get a little...
Instead of helping to solve problems like "rampant drug use," "irresponsible sexuality" and high rape and murder rates, Black leaders merely repeat familiar charges of "slavery, racism, discrimination, and the callous policies of the Reagan administration," writes Professor of Public Policy Glenn C. Loury...
Reagan would have America be a super-power voyeur, sitting and watching as Botha and his apartheid regime rape the country. Congress must leave Botha to his peep-show and begin taking the real steps in freeing South Africa's Blacks--military aid. "Apartheid will be dismantled and its victims will remember who helped to destroy this evil system," said Bishop Desmond M. Tutu, "and President Reagan will be judged harshly by history...
Most of the estimated 10 million to 12 million Americans who suffer from incontinence still feel that way. "We talk about rape or homosexuality but not about loss of bladder and bowel control," observes Simon's founder Cheryle Gartley. "It's the last of the closet issues." But the door is slowly opening. This month in Boston, researchers gathered to discuss promising medical remedies at a joint meeting of the International Continence Society and the Urodynamics Society. Encouraging, too, are recent developments, from newsletters to helpful products that greatly ease the daily burden of patients. Today's message: incontinence...
...best Baron Butthole Voice. 'I am in diah need of three tickey-tickies to youah deah old American flicktoons.' " The Fancy Juxtaposition: epigraphs from Virgil and Mean Streets. The Self-Deflating Jape: "I am . . . the only survivor of a dying planet. I have come to rob all the women . . . rape all the men . . . and learn to do the Peppermint Twist!" And, most discouraging of all, the Unconscionable Length: 1,138 pages...