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...because, indeed, women tend to be the "smaller and weaker sex," and because men have the physical capacity to imtimidate, threaten or force a woman into having intercourse, then every man who is unwilling to gain his own sexual release at the cost of his partner's violation must commit himself to hearing clear consent. Not just lack of protest, not just silent submission--but active, enthusiastic, sober consent...
BUSH SOLD the American public on his war by convincing the nation that it was about American ideals, about national sovereignty and legitimacy, about standing up for defenseless people when evil dictators threaten. About showing courage and leadership for the world...
...Mahdi Saleh, speaker of Iraq's parliament, "we have no alternative but to accept." A U.N. observer force will move into the border areas, allowing the U.S. and allied troops occupying southern Iraq to head home. The Saddam regime, if it survives at all, will be too weakened to threaten its neighbors for a long time to come...
...mecca. But to people living in the surrounding rural counties, it is a symbol of the wastefulness and city-slicker hubris that have pitted them against Las Vegas in a bitter fight over the most precious resource in the West. Faced with a drought and a water shortage that threaten future growth, Clark County, which includes Las Vegas, has applied for rights to all the unallocated underground water within its boundaries and surrounding Nye, White Pine and Lincoln counties. It is one of the biggest attempted water grabs in Western history. If it succeeds, rural residents fear that Las Vegas...
SOME CLAIM that ending overlap will sap academic programs, cut into faculty and staff salaries, force layoffs, threaten need-blind admissions, discourage growth. But no one really knows what the effects of competition will be, primarily because the people with access to the data are under investigation and are unwilling to talk. But most indications are that free market competition will benefit students and promote the colleges' academic missions...