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MacKinnon insists she recognizes that representations are not literally the same as realities. "The book does not say that to talk about a thing is the same as doing the thing," she says. But she doesn't always resist the opportunity to court confusion between the two. "Please disavow this rape of me in your name," she asked Nat Hentoff, the syndicated columnist and hard- line defender of the First Amendment, whose last name Romano had borrowed for his fictional reviewer. (The Dworkin part Romano lifted from another First Amendment stalwart, the legal scholar Ronald Dworkin.) Hentoff complied by publishing...
...with all big issues, there is another side to it: the level of passionate beliefs and impulses. We call them irrational only because they resist rationalizing away; they are as important as anything that can be put on a bar graph or a spread sheet. In the interests of truth in labeling, opponents of the health plan, like me, and supporters should explore these motives. I'll show mine, if they'll show me theirs. Better yet, I'll show both sets...
Before I tell you the two cardinal rules of plastic, I've got to tell you about this little gimmick. I'm a fan of AT&T, so I have mixed feelings about revealing it. But until they close the loophole, how can I resist? It wasn't my idea; it comes from Denny Cunningham, a sharp-eyed user of my computer program. And it's this simple: if you have an AT&T Universal MasterCard, as 11 million of us do, and if you pay your balance in full each month, there's no interest charge on cash advances...
...August 1962, when Mandela began serving his prison term, it was difficult for any political analyst to feel optimistic about the prospects for freedom in south Africa. The apartheid regime of the National Party, in power since 1948, responded to decades of nonviolent resistance with intransigence. After the 1960 massacre at Sharpeville, the ANC decided to resort to a limited campaign of sabotage directed at government installations. For his part in organizing Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the ANC, Mandela--already a practicing lawyer, a veteran of the ANC Youth League and an activist in the 1952 Defiance...
Murphy stressed that Harvard's stable environment appealed to him and made the offer to coach the Crimson hard to resist...