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...raped child. Why are "incest" and "sexual abuse" always in categories separate from "rape"? "Incest" is a noun, not a verb; there's no such thing as "to incest," and the victim and agent of incest are indistinguishable "committers of incest." "Committing incest" in our language is conceived as merely a violation of the accepted law and morality, not of the privacy of a woman's or child's body...
...senior appointment, the most important thing to consider is the general quality of the candidate," Keohane said. "Specific areas of interest are secondary...
Whalen called the messages typical of the "white-Aryan supremacist sort of thing," and said the anti-police remarks were made "just to spice...
...horrible thing to happen," said Hilda Hernandez-Gravelle, assistant dean for race relations and minority affairs. "It's always a shocking, painful experience, even for people who are prepared for such attacks. It's even more offensive that it came so near the high Jewish holiday...
...creations, of course, are created equal. ABC's World News Tonight last July aired a dramatization of alleged spy Felix Bloch passing a briefcase to a Soviet agent. The scene, visually enhanced to look like the real thing but inadvertently not labeled a simulation, was a mistake because it was misleading: it made an event that is alleged to have taken place appear to be a recorded fact. ABC apologized for not identifying the scene properly, and network newscasts have since steered clear of simulations...