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Mark Metcalf, 35, of Berkeley, Calif., endured weeks of pain that "felt like I had a hot iron held against the side of my neck," and he found himself "considering suicide as a rational alternative." Every year a number of the chronically suffering make that choice. Pain, said Albert Schweitzer...
These spectacular confrontations are well handled by Director Reitman, who always finds the time for the funny aside, the wittily telling detail. He and the visual-effects director, Richard Edlund, also have the sense to let the special effects look just a little tacky, so they provide a comic comment...
ALL THIS IS NOT TO SAY that The Lecherous Professor is compassionate towards sexual harassers. Far from it--but the very strength of the book is the manner in which Dzeich and Weiner restrain their tone to one of reasoned rational analysis, letting the words of victims and the stories...
AT THE HEART OF Dzeich and Weiner's argument is a completely rational assumption: an intelligent professional can be expected to tell the difference between friendly contact with a student and inappropriate sexual pressure based on his authority. The myth of confusion and of ambiguity, is a strong weapon against...
TWENTY YEARS AGO, Betty Friedan wrote what is now considered to be the original feminist bible: The Feminine Mystique. Setting the tone for the bra-burning feminists of the 1960's. Friedan began a revolutionary and radical questioning of a woman's place in society. Since then, the polemical rhetoric...