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...pinning her to the floor. "You should thank me!" he shouts over and over again as he kisses her violently. A later scene entails a fight between the Duchess and her brother in which the knife is again brought out. First he drags it suggestively in front of her throat. Then he gives it to her explaining that she should kill herself. An argument ensues during which the crying Duchess is held in a choke hold. In the second act one brother locks her up to punish her for essentially remarrying after her husband's death. Meanwhile, the other brother...
...unrape someone. You can't sew up a slit throat. The survivor knows what has happened to her body. She knows what happened to her mind. She knows what happened to her soul. She knows it HURT. And it is inexcusable that someone, for whatever reason, thought it was okay to hurt her that way. It is also inexcusable and disrespectful to scratch up her tender, healing wounds by attempting to rewrite her life. Whatever you say cannot undo the crime which occurred. An attempt to understand her story would have been a fine and admirable thing. An attempt...
Investigative reporter. The words conjure up grizzled newsmen in dark trench coats meeting at midnight with "Deep Throat" sources. As professional journalists know, such glamorous notions are seldom accurate. Yet for TIME correspondents Jonathan Beaty and Sam Gwynne, who together unearthed and wrote last month's story on the scandal engulfing the Bank of Credit & Commerce International and this week's special report on the B.C.C.I. as well, the reality of chasing the yarn was as thrilling as the best detective fiction...
...those who live under the resulting thick, sooty clouds, day seems like night and temperatures are 11 degreesC (20 degreesF) cooler than in places where the sky is clear. Some of the well fires could burn for years, spewing out poisonous fumes that choke the air and rake the throat, particularly when the air is still. The miasma poses a special risk to the very young, the old and the infirm. "There is a real danger to human life," says a Western diplomat in Riyadh. "When the winds stop, a lot of people are going...
Suppose, Jon, that I decided I had something to gain in taking your life. I could accomplish this by asserting violence against your physical resistance--I could beat you to death with a crowbar or slash your throat with a knife. This would certainly be a horrible crime. But is it the physical violence against your persistent resistance that distinguishes the act as a crime...