Results for “Center for Strategic and International Studies”

like abortion. Extremists on both sides of such issue tend to see things in black and white terms.

life begins at the moment of conception and is as sacred then as it is at the moment before birth. To an absolute pro-choicer

by demonstrating their misuse of the serious moral crime of real sexual harassment. I have represented women who have experienced real sexual harassment—including a graduate student who was explicitly told by her faculty advisor that the quality of her recommendation would depen...

and cases in which innocent people have been falsely accused of rape. I teach that when it comes to the serious crime of rape

reflected in the writings of Wigmore and others

I want you to accept the fact that the alleged victim has told many lies in the past and can’t be completely trusted. In other words

when he was examined by doctors for bruises. Look at that photograph and imagine what the alleged victim in this case saw

and my colleague persuaded the police not to press charges against the young man. I do not know how the engagement worked out

she offers no resistance and appears to consent? The answer is yes. Under the law

to rape her. The wired conversation consists mostly of the accountant bantering and joking with the secretary while trying to persuade her to continue to have a relationship with him. She repeatedly asked him whether he had given her cocaine

the nurse danced with several of the doctors and two of them “fooled around” with her in the bathroom. As the party was ending

they drove back to Boston and stopped to view the beach

both verbally and by her unambiguous actions. But it now turns out

and whose only exercise was lifting a bow—had been accused by a 5 foot 4

and the case was assigned by the senior partner to a well-known woman lawyer active in feminist causes. She found the story implausible – so much so that the lawyers decided to waive a jury trial and have the case decided by a judge