Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...four University of Massachusetts at Amherst (UMass) women who claimed to have been the victim of an assault last month has now admitted that she made up the report, school officials said yesterday...
...While that's good news for Cuomo, and may even lead to some help for the homeless nationwide, the story is another example of how a small urban event - in this case, the alleged assault with a brick by intermittently homeless man Paris Drake that sent a young woman to the hospital - can become of national interest when seen through the Giuliani-Hillary prism. Homelessness becomes hot, a chance for the two candidates to flaunt their party stripes. On one side the Republican mayor vows to protect society from the "violent crazies" (as a Daily News headline called them) walking...
...suggest that the imagined plight of conservatives is in any way comparable to the oppressively real struggles of queer communities is an act, at best, of shameful disingenuousness. At worst, it is a frank assault. Implicit in this false parallel is the fantasy of a queer conspiracy putting the increasingly fragile American family, character and more under siege. For example, a recent staff editorial in The Salient accused the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters' Alliance of domesticating the Undergraduate Council into a queer lapdog and making Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 into a mere bedfellow...
...plans." Western leaders are warning that not only will destroying the city and every living thing in it diminish Russia's international standing, but the march on Grozny may have created its own momentum. "Russian sources admit there's no military rationale for pressing ahead with an all-out assault on Grozny," says Meier. "From a strategic point of view, it makes more sense to simply lay siege to the city. But there may be a political rationale to pressing the offensive and destroying the Chechen capital." Indeed, if that can be achieved via air strikes and artillery - with minimal...
Even if you totally disagree with Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell's vow to "fight to the death" against a right-wing assault on his city's affirmative-action program, you have to acknowledge his candor. "This is as important to us as our right to vote was back in the '60s," he declares. "African Americans have to be as resolute on this issue as the Jewish community is about aid to Israel." Any "handkerchief-head Negro" who disagrees, he adds, ought to be "shunned...