Word: assaulter
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...prepares to stand trial for allegations of rape. Purdy’s trial was scheduled to commence yesterday in Middlesex County Superior Court, but was instead delayed until May 17, said his lawyer J. Daniel Silverman. Currently, the Cambridge business owner remains accused of indecent assault and battery of a person over 14 years old, and allegedly raping a female customer, then 19, in 2004. “There is a lot of court congestion,” Silverman said. “Often they schedule more than one prisoner for the same time slot. A lot of it depends...
...November, Rudd was on a roll as he addressed Sydney's Centre for Independent Studies, whose spiritual core revolves around free markets and individual liberty. He took a cudgel to the think tank's idol, Friedrich Hayek, and his "intellectual creature" John Howard for what he termed their assault on social justice. Rudd described a modern dystopia of debt and high interest rates, materialism, childhood obesity, time pressure on families and societal anxiety about the future. "The dilemma for the political right is that, in John Howard's Australia, it's not supposed to be like that," Rudd argued...
...most recent procedural revisions to the Ad Board occurred in 2001, when an independent fact finder was introduced for disciplinary cases, most commonly those involving sexual assault...
...these factors accumulate, killers in the making remain surprisingly cool, all the while strolling toward the edge. That is what makes mass murder especially chilling. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold planned the Columbine assault for months, buying guns, practicing their aim, even designing their own shabby bombs that were intended to blow up the building. Cho bought the first of the two pistols he used in his killings on March 13, then bought the second just days before the murders - decorously observing the 30-day waiting period the state of Virginia requires between handgun purchases...
...Throughout the slow, deliberate smolder that leads up to the shootings, all mass killers also tend to disengage from the people around them. More and more of their emotional energy becomes consumed with planning their assault and, tellingly, with what often appears to be a newfound fascination with firearms and other weapons. "The quiet is the problem," says Welner. "The anger and rage just get bigger and bigger and seep into a fantasy life, and the person becomes increasingly alienated and isolated and contemptuous...