It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.
It was actually pretty common for women not to scream or call the cops in rape cases I prosecuted, Roe said, at least partly because women aren’t wired to react that way. We are socialized to be likea...
It is morally impossible to remain neutral in this conflict. The bystander is forced to take a side.It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystan...
In drum spre varf, Viesturs a trecut pe langa cadravele inghetate ale lui Fischer si Hall.-Jean (sotia lui Fischer) si Jan(sotia lui Hall) m-au rugat sa le aduc obiecte personale, poveste rusinat Vies...
I was irresistibly drawn to write about Latter-Day Saints not only because I already knew something about their theology, and admired much about their culture, but also because of the utterly unique c...
I now walk into the wild.
Handwritten in neat block letters on a page torn from a novel by Nikolay Gogol, it read: S.O.S. I NEED YOUR HELP. I AM INJURED, NEAR DEATH, AND TOO WEAK TO HIKE OUT OF HERE I AM ALL ALONE, THIS IS NO...
From elementary school through high school, my siblings and I were hectored to excel in every class, to win medals in science fairs, to be chosen princess of the prom, to win election to student gover...
For a person accustomed to the multi ethnic commotion of Los Angeles, Vancouver, New York, or even Denver, walking across the BYU campus can be a jarring experience. One sees no graffiti, not a speck...
Curiously, Chris didn’t hold everyone to the same exacting standards. One of the individuals he professed to admire greatly over the last two years of his life was a heavy drinker and incorrigible phi...
At that stage of my youth, death remained as abstract a concept as non-Euclidean geometry or marriage. I didn't yet appreciate its terrible finality or the havoc it could wreak on those who'd entruste...
At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a world of abstraction and security and material excess, a world in which he felt grievously cut off fro...
Allison asked him, Has this happened before?… No! Never! Donaldson sobbed. This is the first time anything has ever happened to me like this. Ever!…I
«Tornare indietro quando era così vicino alla vetta...», osservò Hall scuotendo la testa il 6 maggio, mentre Kropp superava il Campo Due diretto verso la base della montagna. «Questo giovane Goran sì...
They share this common idea that a rapist is a guy in a ski mask, wielding a knife, who drags women into the bushes. But these undetected rapists don’t wear masks or wield knives or drag women into th...
The sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a function of his stubborn idealism--his insistence on trying to do the right thing. In which case it wasn't a tragic flaw that brought Tillman do...
La naturaleza es un lugar despiadado, al que le traen sin cuidado las esperanzas y anhelos de los viajeros. «Los
Is a sharp hurt I feel every single day. It’s really hard. Some days are better than others, but it’s going to be hard every day for the rest of my life.
Going to have to be real careful not to accept any gifts from them in the future because they will think they have bought my respect. Chris
Drunk guys who may have ‘made mistakes’ nearly always get the benefit of the doubt. Drunk girls, however, do not. Compounding