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...drawings by David Suter. This week's cover subject, the alarming growth and extent of personal violence, especially within families and among people who know each other, was another such opportunity. Says Deputy Art Director Irene Ramp: "We wanted to convey the sense of violence and violation, the shame and helplessness of being a victim, without horrifying the reader or sensationalizing the victims. Art work had the advantage of being able to distill the emotional impact and move it from the too realistic to the abstract...
...cause that was undeniably just. By peacefully assembling his masses in the nation's capital-and in front of network television cameras-he was able to enlist the sympathy of mainstream America almost in a single day and to win its support in finding remedies for the shame of racial discrimination...
...uncertainty about the scope of private violence is a function of shame, of hushing up. Such crimes, unlike slashings or shootings on sidewalks and in taverns, often leave a victim more hurt and humiliated than outraged. Historically, beatings by one's husband, like rapes, were bad enough to suffer but more shameful still to reveal publicly. Child-rearing, no matter how harshly executed, was an entirely private matter...
...They no longer readily accept any portion of blame in a society that has traditionally been ambivalent about siding with them. In the past decade, as women have gained greater equality, women's groups have coalesced across the country to work to bring rape out of a miasma of shame, insensitivity and injustice. In many ways, the crusade has paid off. There has been widespread improvement in the way rape victims are treated by the police, courts and hospitals. There are now more than 700 rape crisis centers nationwide. Laws in most states have been toughened, conviction rates are going...
Since the first rules prohibiting some stimulants and tranquilizers were instituted by the IOC in 1967, urinalysis checks have sent athletes home in shame from time to time...