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Polanski
Just because an adult is sexually stimulated by the sight or actions of a child does not excuse his actions. Your author attempts to excuse Polanski by saying the thirteen-year-old victim he raped behaved provocatively. So where does this slippery slope end? With the three-year-old tot who has learned that ''flirting'' melts an adult and yields ...
Posted to Human Nature by Mary Golden on October 14, 2009
What's gotten into Bill Clinton? Past as prologue.
What has gotten into Bill Clinton, he of red-faced outbursts of anger, Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson asked Tuesday.Katha Pollitt of the liberal Nation Magazine, an unlikely ally of Hillary's ''vast rightwing conspiracy'' already gave one answer (http://www.thenation.com/doc/19990322/pollitt):''We will never know the truth behind ...
Posted to Chatterbox by Martin Edwin Andersen on January 22, 2008
The Women's History Boom
As a student of women's history in the early 1980s, I found this article touched many of the bases with insight and conviction. I do remember running into the fascinating Laura X at one point. While emphasizing her role as an heiress who functioned in absentia from her office, you minimized an important motive that animated much of her historical ...
Posted to Books by elisabeth on September 5, 2007