'What I saw was this community of women who really had nothing in common with each other, other than this one thing' Images of the 35 women who have accused comedian Bill Cosby of date rape - PICTURE: New York magazine The image was striking: 35 women - dressed in black, in chronological order by their alleged year of assault - appeared together on the cover of New York magazine, giving faces to their accounts of being sexually assaulted by the comedian Bill Cosby.The cover presentation, and the individual portraits that accompanied the women’s stories in this week’s issue, drew widespread attention on the Internet and lit up social media as soon as it was posted Sunday night. The magazine’s website went offline early Monday morning and stayed dark until about noon, thwarting what had been extraordinary traffic. (On Twitter, a user who goes by Vikingdom2016 claimed responsibility for the disruption, but did not draw a connection to the Cosby package.)The photographs, by Amanda Demm...
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