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Some researchers fear that even raising the question trivializes the whole issue of rape. But there are paradoxes here that might shed light on the issue. How is it that when an adolescent boy is coerced into sleeping with an older woman, it is viewed with a wink as an accepted rite of passage, while the reverse -- the coercion of a girl by an older man -- is clearly...
...queen and a prince that launched a 10-year war and ruined a nation? The Iliad is the place to bone up on that one. Then there was King David of Israel. One day, while strolling on his rooftop, he spied a woman bathing and summoned her (nudge, wink) to his royal presence. After Bathsheba told him she had become pregnant, the King 1) tried to trick her husband, a loyal if unimaginative soldier, into sleeping with his wife and 2) when that failed, arranged for the unwitting cuckold to be placed in optimum jeopardy during a battle with...
Perhaps this reasoning begins to explain the willingness of many Yemenis, North African Arabs and Palestinians to wink at Saddam Hussein's brutality; it was cloaked in the rhetoric of Pan-Arabist "justice" and was therefore--although immoral and un-Islamic--understandable and probably excusable...
...economic adviser. With the coming of Jimmy Carter, Seidman went back into business as vice chairman of the Phelps Dodge mining company, then headed the business school of Arizona State University at Tempe until he took over the FDIC in 1985. Of all his wanderings Seidman says with a wink, "I can't keep...
Before I could act, Bernstein stooped down again to snatch it up, then handed it back to me and favored me with a benevolent wink before moving on the next adoring...