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...further exploitative programming, but the "Multi-Millionaire" event proves that even careful background checks can miss something, and in the high-stress situations of "Survivor" and "Big Brother," even a small oversight in the psychological or physical tests can explode into a serious issue...
...question that remains as "Survivor" is set to air is how far American network executives will go to win the ratings race. All around the world, even more shocking game shows exist. In England, game shows like "Don't Forget Your Toothbrush" involve people performing sometimes lewd and embarrassing acts for a surprisingly small amount of money. This is mild compared to some of the Japanese and Australian game shows. Are American TV executives so concerned about ratings that they are willing to put anything on television, regardless of its moral implications? From the latest two imports from Europe, that...
Despite the widespread problem of sexual and physical violence (studies have shown that approximately one-fourth of college women will be the survivors of rape or attempted rape by the time that they graduate), it is very difficult for survivors to find one another. There are many reasons for this difficulty. For one, it is impossible to see who a survivor is; there is no visible marker of membership for a group of survivors. Also, issues of confidentiality preclude mental health professionals from disclosing survivors' identities and friends of survivors rightly do not want to betray their friends' confidence. Moreover...
Unfortunately, too often survivors go it alone in their struggle to define and live with their experiences. As Susan Estrich, a rape survivor and a graduate of our law school, wrote in her book, Real Rape, "At first, being raped is something you simply don't talk about. Then it occurs to you that people whose houses are broken into or who are mugged in Central Park talk about it all the time…And so I mention it. I mention it in my classes. I describe it here…In writing about rape, I am writing about...
...process by which the Vatican makes decisions. The absence of an apology for Pius XII didn't in any way diminish the power in the spectacle of the bishop of Rome making a heartfelt expression of solidarity with the victims of the Holocaust, before being embraced by a weeping survivor he'd known since his boyhood. This on a day when, in contrast to previous pontiffs who'd taught that the Jews' exile from their land had been punishment for the death of Jesus, John Paul II took the unprecedented step of blessing the state of Israel. The Polish pontiff...