Word: speaker
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...speaker, sociologist and anti-porn activist Gail Dines-Levi, showed a graphic slide presentation linking male violence to images of women in the media and proceeded to advocate the censorship of most current sexual images of women--in magazines, films and advertisements...
...three rape rate is started by Penthouse and Playboy," Dines-Levi said. To combat such connections between pornography and violence, the Take Back the Night speaker implied that women should take militant action to prevent men from buying and viewing pornographic materials...
Ethics is all the rage in Washington these days, as Speaker of the House Jim Wright can testify. This week the House Ethics Committee will release a 450- page report summing up a ten-month investigation of Wright's alleged wrongdoing. A vocal minority of Republicans, led by G.O.P. whip Newt Gingrich, predict that the inquiry will result in Wright's censure, removal as Speaker or maybe even expulsion. But in the end he is likely to hang on to his job because this is an argument not about right and wrong but about the peculiar ethics rules...
...Wright, whose slicked-back hair, caterpillar eyebrows and leering grin give him the look of a wheeler-dealer, was a good target. After revelations of an unusual deal in which a Texas publisher paid Wright 55% royalties -- three or four times the usual rate -- for a collection of the Speaker's speeches and anecdotes, Common Cause and 72 Republicans asked the House Ethics Committee to investigate...
That leaves the committee to decide on two questions that are, at the least, embarrassing to the Speaker. One is whether Wright's financial dealings with Fort Worth developer George Mallick violated House rules. The other is whether Wright's sweetheart royalty deal was designed to get around congressional limits on outside income...