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...most students, Harvard is a relatively safe place. Compared to other college towns, Cambridge has few violent crimes. Yet incidences of sexual assault have always been a concern on college campuses—especially on ours. According to the Harvard University Police Department, last year there were 12 reported incidences of sexual groping and 16 reported sexual assaults. The real question, however, is how many survivors of sexual assault have not spoken...
...startling as these statistics are, even more upsetting is how court cases—like the recently aborted Kobe Bryant sexual assault trial—continue to encourage an environment in which survivors increasingly fear to report sexual assault. For the young woman involved in this specific case, reporting her story to the police threw her in the middle of a media circus. She was subjected to a brutal environment where rape shield laws were unable to prevent sensational revelations of her name, graphic details about her sexual history and endless questions about her character and mental stability...
...white supremacist whose compound in rural Idaho, Aryan Nations, was the center of a U.S. neo-Nazi network with links around the globe; in Hayden, Idaho. Though some of his followers were later convicted of race crimes, Butler, a former aerospace engineer, ran the compound openly until a 1998 assault by his guards on a Native American woman led to his bankruptcy and its sale...
...Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who retired last year, Anwar maintained that he was being persecuted for having crossed his former boss. When Mahathir fired him in 1998, Anwar had led tens of thousands in demanding democratic reform, in the largest demonstrations Malaysia had seen in decades. DISMISSED. Sexual-assault charges against KOBE BRYANT, 26, basketball star; after the woman who accused him of rape declined to testify against him; in Eagle, Colorado. The Los Angeles Lakers guard had been charged with raping the hotel clerk, then 19, who visited his room while he was in Colorado last year. He apologized...
...been killed, left him and his surviving militiamen free to fight another day. The interim Iraqi government led by Prime Minister Iyad Allawi had repeatedly vowed to crush al-Sadr's illegal army but quickly acceded to a plan that would spare the shrine from assault. Al-Sadr, said Minister of State Qassim Dawoud, is now "as free as any Iraqi citizen to do whatever he would like in Iraq." But there's surely more trouble ahead. Having spent time inside the shrine, I saw firsthand the degree to which al-Sadr's supporters are devoted, armed and determined...