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...Again, the élites have the privilege of avoiding military service because it's an all-voluntary military now. We have a much bigger drug culture now than we had then. The recreational use of drugs [then], some of it was quite benign. Now it has given way to vast criminal empires that are ravaging the inner cities of this country...
...campus sponsored by Harvard Hillel. Rabbi Ethan Linden, the rabbinic advisor for Hillel’s Student Conservative Minyan, hosted the event, which featured a Jeopardy-style game show and a close reading of a Torah passage. “The literature on sexuality in Jewish law is vast,” said Linden. “It has something to say about all aspects of life.” The turnout of about a dozen people failed to rival past “Jewbilation” events, like a discussion with Institute of Politics Fellow Tony Leon, according...
...away from home to avoid further abuse and turns to prostitution to feed herself (and perhaps her children), because it is the best job she can get. Did she consent? Does it matter that her options are so limited? As MacKinnon pointed out, social science has documented that the vast majority of prostitutes suffered sexual abuse in childhood or adolescence, and are also desperately poor. The Crimson Staff compares the prostitute to the “janitor or factory worker.” The latter two are not routinely raped as part of their job, and then told they consented...
Vietnam is the latest country to report an alarming skew towards boy babies, one that may lead to vast societal upheaval. This week, the United Nations Population Fund said that some 25,000 expected baby girls went "missing" - were not carried to term - in Vietnam last year. The implication is that some expectant parents are aborting unwanted girls once they learn the sex of the fetus through ultrasound technology. Government statistics and a separate U.N. survey in 2006 put the ratio of newborns at 110 boys to every 100 girls - higher than the "natural" rate of 105 to 107 boys...
...city of Barinas, the state capital, has long been defined by the vast, rough-and-tumble plains, or llanos, and their cattle culture, that encircle it. Much of the city's gossip, however, revolves around the Chavez clan. It's not uncommon to see red graffiti splashed across street walls in Barinas warning, "If they try to kill Chavez, death to the oligarchy." And anecdotes about young Hugo, accurate or not, flow freely...