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...laid the foundations by contending that women have been repressed by the socially tolerated threat of rape. One implication is that women can never achieve equality with men until rape is wiped out. Another is that sexual relations are somehow inherently unjust, that a man always has the tacit trump card of a potential rape to play against his partner...
...jeopardy," he said, "threatened by those who would quit before the job is done." He spoke of the arms-control talks now under way in Geneva. "Just as we are sitting down at the bargaining table with the Soviet Union," Reagan pleaded, "let's not throw America's trump card away...
...first, these two songs trump all the others--at least side one's other offerings, "Fortune Hunter" and "Cadillac." But Page's hammering riffs on side two definitely make an impression. Page fanatics still mourning Zep's death in '80 will find their fill of guitar here, especially on "Dreaming" and "Spirit of Love," two instances where the master redeems the dull work of the debut...
...cagers weren't dealt too many trump cards Saturday night...
...their proposal, and base their appeals solely on the crimes of apartheid. One must only look at the heightened pace of divestment since the imposition of the state of emergency to see that it is the repugnance of the Pretoria regime, not the effectiveness of divestment, that is their trump card. In this light, it is confusing to examine the Soviet Union, because it shows that the issue is not as simple as divestment activists wish to believe. If we are to divest "to make a statement" or "end our complicity" in bloodshed, then it should also be done with...