Word: assaultive
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That's a tough question, and the law offers few good answers. In criminal prosecutions for rape or sexual assault, about half a dozen states require that an adult victim's identity be kept secret (others require anonymity only if the prosecution or court requests it). That's because the state assumes that the promise of anonymity will encourage victims to come forward. When a woman accused basketball star Kobe Bryant of rape in Colorado, for example, the world was told his name but officially not hers. To this day, only 38% of rapes or sexual assaults are reported...
...Najaf, where U.S. forces battled the Mahdi Army in 2004. U.S. troops stage occasional raids in the sector against Mahdi Army operatives, which the Pentagon now considers a greater threat to security than al-Qaeda. But al-Maliki has consistently stopped American forces from waging an all-out assault on the Mahdi Army or its leadership out of fear of alienating his political base. "The Iraqi leadership has prevented us from targeting some leaders," says a senior military official. "Our understanding is that [such restraints] are now over." In a Jan. 17 meeting with reporters from five news organizations, including...
...hunter-gatherer environment of human evolution, you killed people directly, not by the triple bank shot of pulling a lever that shifted a plate that rerouted a train. So an evolved aversion to the killing of an innocent might be especially sensitive to visions of direct physical assault. Imagining the triple bank shot impacts us less viscerally, causing a weaker aversion that is more easily outweighed by calculation...
...male undergraduate narrowly escaped an attempted robbery this afternoon in Harvard Yard after being struck in the head with the wooden handle of an umbrella. It was the second daytime assault on an undergraduate in the Yard in just three days...
...university this week reinstated in good standing two of the players - Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann - after rape charges were dropped. They are still charged with sexual assault and kidnapping. One player - David Evans - has already graduated...