Word: aftermath
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...College needs to improve its rape and sexual assault counseling and clarify its procedure for the reporting of such incidents. In the aftermath of an alleged rape by a sophomore last winter, Harvard's response was inadequate--Harvard's administrators seem to prefer to believe that rape and sexual assault do not happen here. The College needs to confront date rape openly and publicize resources for victims. Harvard must go beyond the good work done by student groups and make itself an official source of support and guidance...
Sept. 17-21 - A severe hurricane sweeps in from the Gulf of Mexico, causing widespread damage in Florida, Mississippi and Louisiana and killing at least 100. On Sept. 21, in the hurricane's aftermath, flood waters near New Orleans kill about...
...endangered America's telecommunications primacy. Clinton began signing the same waivers (there have been 11 on his watch). In 1996, an American company, Loral Space & Communications, used a waiver to export a $200 million satellite that was destroyed when the Chinese rocket carrying it into space exploded. In the aftermath, Loral and another firm, Hughes Electronic Corp., gave information to the Chinese that, according to the Pentagon, may have helped China hone its ICBM guidance systems--a possible breach that has been under investigation by the Justice Department for 18 months...
...disease, among them former President George Bush, First Lady Barbara Bush, two-time Olympic gold medalist Gail Devers and women's golf champion Pat Bradley. As this small sample indicates, Graves' Disease tends to manifest itself in very active and energetic individuals. In fact, as journalists speculated in the aftermath of the Gulf War, President Bush's Graves' Disease may have been precipitated by the stresses of a new presidency and an escalating international conflict...
...never passed a beggar in the street without giving him money." The softhearted populist is Oscar, not Elvis, and the quote is from English playwright David Hare, whose play about Wilde, The Judas Kiss, opens in New York City this week. Starring Liam Neeson, Hare's play examines the aftermath of the episode when words finally failed Wilde: the trials for "gross indecency" (1890s British legalese for homosexuality) that ended in his imprisonment and ruin but also assured his permanent status as a gay-rights icon...