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Oops: College Names Anti-Rape Program After a Wife-Beating Law
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The ‘rule of thumb’ said a man could hit his wife with a rod no wider than his thumb. Not the best title for the University of Maryland’s sex-assault fight.
Jay Michaelson
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Nov. 2 2015
6:35PM EST
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