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Anyone who doubts that words have consequences ought to talk to the feminist legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon. Certainly her words have had consequences. When Canada's Supreme Court decided to uphold the nation's toughened obscenity laws two years ago, they were moved in large part by MacKinnon's argument that pornography prompts men to a whole panoply of crimes against women, from gender discrimination to outright rape...
Until now, this sort of Bah, humbug! approach to the Scriptures was in full display largely in the rarefied and theologically correct atmosphere of seminaries and elite universities. John Dominic Crossan, a Bible scholar at DePaul University, notes that there was an "implicit deal -- you scholars can go off to the universities and write in the journals and say anything you want." Now, he says, "the scholars are coming out of the closet," demanding public attention for the way they think. Among the latest such works are Crossan's Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography (HarperSanFrancisco; $18), Burton Mack's The Lost...
...Wellesley scholar says advocates of women's studies at Harvard have struggled for years to overcome such attitudes. Harvard was the seventh of the eight schools in the Ivy League to establish a women's studies concentration...
...rest of those invited were Phillips BrooksHouse Association Treasurer Andrew J. Ehrlich '96and Raza representative Richard Cole Jr., bothcouncil members; former Let's Go Publisher Mark N.Templeton '93-94; Salient editor Whitney D. Pidot'96; Rhodes scholar Alexander M. Johnston '94;Marshall scholar Paras P. Mehta '94; CrimsonEditorial Chair Joanna M. Weiss '94; and Instituteof Politics Student Advisory Committee ChairElizabeth R. Caputo...
Mansfield was called as an expert witness as a Constitutional scholar and testified in favor of the amendment...