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...clitoris with a pair of barber's scissors. The girl barely had time to emit her first gasp of pain before her legs were lowered and her mutilated genitalia were bound with rags. Only then did she find her voice. "Father! Father!" she shrieked. "A sin upon you. A sin upon...
...manual. What Susa and Littell have created in The Dangerous Liaisons, now getting its world premiere at the San Francisco Opera, is nothing short of wonderful: a finely wrought near masterpiece that ennobles its characters with music that comes not from the head but from the heart -- hating the sin of licentiousness, but loving the sinner, as all good operas...
...women may differ on whether extramarital sex is a sin. But when the products of such unions are restigmatized as "illegitimate," all women, chaste or otherwise, are potentially on shaky ground. The implication is that a mother can give birth, but only a father can confer full membership in the human community, i.e., "legitimacy." A child that no man has claimed -- either through marriage or later legal "legitimation" procedures -- becomes somehow less worthy and less human. In English common law, an out- of-wedlock child was filius nullius, meaning child of no one. The kid was a bastard; the mother...
...antiabortion protest leaders the day before at a nearby hotel: Is the killing of abortion doctors "justifiable homicide"? Scheidler says he argued that it wasn't. What if a doctor was killed, he asked, just as he was on his way to tender his resignation -- to quit and sin no more? Well, answered one of his breakfast partners earnestly, if that happened, "God would understand...
Altman's shifting explanation of his behavior proves once more that the axiom is true: it is the cover-up, not the original sin, that tends to bring down government officials. But to this axiom there is a Clinton codicil. Overschooled in damage control during the 1992 campaign, Clinton White House officials have exerted a kind of obsessive reluctance at every level to just let the government do its work. Evidence is growing that rather than allowing the RTC to try to recover the $47 million in lost taxpayer funds from the officers of a failed savings and loan...