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Rape is ugly, violent and dehumanizing. It makes its victims fear their communities, and is a painful reminder to all civilized people of the results of not respecting the sovereignty of an individual. Rape is a crime, and rapists belong in prison. Sadly, rape has become an Orwellian political weapon with no fixed definition...
Military experts say the best way to judge a weapon is in battle, and this is the toughest trial world arms buyers have seen in years. A recent report from the French Parliament warns gingerly that in the global weapons market, "France's place risks being reduced." It already has been. Overseas orders for French military hardware have shrunk 45% since 1988. The Desert Storm debacle is unlikely to bring them back...
More Patriots are not the answer. Despite its gee-whiz exploits in the gulf, the Patriot flies at only three times the speed of sound and covers only a narrow swath of real estate. It has no trouble dealing with the unsophisticated Scud, a Mach 4 weapon that has proved to be the Edsel of missiles. An ICBM warhead, on the other hand, enters the atmosphere at 15 times the speed of sound. A Patriot could scarcely get off its launcher before an ICBM did its damage...
Among other things, Wolf, a Yale graduate in literature, contends that today's women have been victimized in unprecedented ways by a "violent backlash against feminism that uses images of female beauty as a political weapon against women's advancement." This victimization produces deep inside women "a dark vein of self-hatred, physical obsession, terror of aging and dread of lost control...
Officers brought the student to the scene of the arrest, where she positively identified the suspects, Morse said. He added that a knife was recovered and later identified by the Harvard student as the weapon used in the incident...