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Egyptian Man Gets Hard Labor for Groping

Ambreen Ali — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:17:00 CST

Women face rampant harassment on Cairo's streets—83% of Egyptians and 98% of foreigners say they've been groped, hassled, or assaulted—but the 3% who go to the cops are usually met with indifference. A landmark case in which a man got 3 years of hard labor for reaching out...

Fritzl's Crimes Rooted in Literary History

Neal Colgrass — Sun, 18 May 2008 20:03:50 CDT

Josef Fritzl's crimes stunned the world, but such demented patriarchs have long haunted Austrian literature. The dark 1852 story "Turmalin" depicts a deranged husband locking up his daughter; the 1917 novel The Grave of the Living tells of a troubled family and an imprisoned child. "This is the cultural matrix...

Dartmouth Prof to Sue 'Fascist' Students

Jonas Oransky — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:37:08 CDT

A Dartmouth English professor enamored of trendy French literary theories recently got so incensed at students who “argue with your ideas” that she announced her intention to sue her class, charging that their “anti-intellectualism” violated her civil rights and caused her “intellectual distress.” The Wall Street Journal's Joseph Rago, a...