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...battered wife and rape victim in such books as Woman Hating and Intercourse. She wrote that pornography was a "celebration of rape and injury to women," sexual intercourse "a means of physiologically making a woman inferior" and marriage a "license to rape." By all accounts a gentle, soft-spoken person, she repeatedly said she did not hate men, just the subjugation of women...
...look in Soviet diplomacy is personified by Gromyko's replacement, the genial and soft-spoken Eduard Shevardnadze, 57. A novice at foreign policy, he speaks with much less knowledge and authority than his predecessor and seems to be mainly a pleasant and able messenger for his boss. While Gromyko tended to deliver harsh lectures to Western diplomats, Shevardnadze offers competent, but far from exhaustive, position summaries. A Communist apparatchik in his home republic of Georgia, Shevardnadze rarely traveled abroad until he was tapped by the party leadership for his present post last July 2. But he has gained visible confidence...
...battered wife and rape victim in such books as Woman Hating and Intercourse. She wrote that pornography was a "celebration of rape and injury to women," sexual intercourse a "means of physiologically making a woman inferior" and marriage a "license to rape." By all accounts a gentle, soft-spoken person, she repeatedly said she did not hate men, just the subjugation of women...
...When the G.O.P. crushed former minority leader Tom Daschle's bid for re-election, the Republicans thought they had broken the back of the Democratic resistance. But as Klein pointed out, the soft-spoken and creatively stubborn Reid has marshaled his troops much as Robert E. Lee did and is winning on the battlegrounds of his choosing. It remains to be seen whether, like Lee, Reid will eventually fall or Americans will realize that control of all three branches of government by a single party leads to extremism. Del Hindle High Ridge, Missouri...
...Semel may be ideally suited to bringing Silicon Valley and Hollywoodtogether. Soft-spoken and unassuming, Semel, along with fellow former Warner Bros. co- chairman Bob Daly, is credited with helping expand Warner Bros. into a highly profitable business, in part by ratcheting up movie-related merchandising and overseeing hits like ER and Friends on TV and movies like Batman, Chariots of Fire and The Matrix. He carefully maintains the connections he made at Warner, and though he now works out of Yahoo!'s Sunnyvale, Calif., headquarters in Silicon Valley during the week, his home is in Bel Air, where...