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Against these powers, it seems impossible for ordinary people to tip the scales toward a view of rape that condemns rapists, not victims, just by protesting terms like "forcible rape." But ordinary people can count for a lot; after all, what influences our cultural views of rape if not everyday conversation...
...bird population, Disney had asked for a license to relocate protected wildlife away from the theme park, where they annoyed tourists and destroyed property. But for some of the island's vultures, in particular, relocation became extermination. Game officials, alerted to the situation last June by an anonymous phone tip, were horrified to discover 18 dehydrated black vultures and one carcass stuffed into a small airless shed without adequate food or water; employees admitted that the shed once held more than 70 birds. Disney, which has appointed a panel of environmentalists and ornithologists to rectify the situation, could face...
...first axioms American reporters learn is that a fender bender on Main Street is bigger news than a train wreck in Pakistan. Just as Tip O'Neill crystallized electoral wisdom in his dictum "All politics is local," many editors seem to have concluded that all journalism should be local too. Reportage from distant places tends to be limited to the melodramatic and gauged by personal relevance: either the it-could-have-been-me human-interest factor or the larger-implications factor of how, although the news consumer was untouched by a particular event, similar ones in the future might have...
Despite occasional gunfire, the truce held last week, allowing a semblance of normality to return to Beirut. Its residents have watched cease-fires come and go, but one promising tip-off suggests this one will last for a while. The price of plate glass for replacing the thousands of windowpanes shattered by gunfire and artillery barrages quadrupled within hours...
When former Speaker of the House Thomas (Tip) O'Neill retired after more than 50 years in politics, he had only $2,900 in the bank. But today O'Neill is faring far better, not just because of his best-selling book, Man of the House, but also due to his status as a trendy spokesman. O'Neill has appeared in ads for American Express and Miller Lite beer, among others. In current TV commercials, he can be seen rising from an open suitcase on the bed of a Quality Inns International motel...