Word: assaultive
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Kevin Paik ’07 on Jan. 15, after narrowly escaping an attempted robbery in the Yard. It was the second daytime assault on an undergraduate in the Yard in three days...
...nation of laws. But our legal system is not a house of cards, one flick away from collapse. U.S. jurisprudence has in fact always been a series of hedged bets, weighing the potential harm of a violation against the costs of enforcement. That's why people get arrested for assault but not for jaywalking. It's time to think seriously about exactly where the act of illegal immigration lies in the spectrum of criminality. Consider the complicity of U.S. employers ranging from multinational corporations to suburbanites looking for gardeners. Factor in the mixed signals that lax law enforcement sent...
...regular range and would require further charges. The driver reportedly began yelling and refused to stop the cab. He finally stopped at the destination and the reporting party exited the cab without incident.May 5:2:07 p.m.: Officers were dispatched to Tuchman Hall D to take report of an assault. The reporting party said they got into an argument with an individual and that they were slapped on the wrist and struck in the face with a plastic cup.May 6:2:37 p.m.: Officers responded to a report of a verbal altercation between two individuals. The reporting person stated that...
...York Times columnist has survived a plane crash in Uganda and an assault by drunken soldiers in Ghana...
...local TV news. As a youngster, Omar threw stones at Israeli tanks and ran away; youngsters of the new generation seek to annihilate themselves as well as their Israeli enemy. In his butcher shop, Omar points outside to a boy brandishing an exact plastic replica of an M-16 assault rifle. "Children today, they're tougher, more aggressive than we are. They have less to believe in, fewer opportunities," he says. Raja Shehadeh, a Palestinian writer and lawyer in Ramallah, later told me, "I'm reminded of that saying 'When you lose a nation, you resort to your church.' That...