Word: assaultive
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...exactly what caused the precipitous drop remains unclear, and Sarah Rankin, director of the Office for Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (OSAPR), said she was at a loss to explain Harvard’s slide in the ranking...
...their payloads too late - they were worried about hitting the landing parties - and missed the bunkers completely. Rockets were supposed to pound the beach from offshore, but they fell short. The German defenses were practically untouched. "All it's done is wake them up!" one officer remarked. That the assault on Omaha succeeded is due partly to shelling from nearby destroyers but mostly to the courage and determination of the infantry. That's one of the lessons of Antony Beevor's glorious, horrifying D-Day (Viking; 592 pages): the purpose of valor is usually to make up for somebody else...
...25th best (worst?) on the list of sex-savvy schools to number 62. The report, which ranks 141 colleges and universities, measures the availability of sexual health resources on campus based on student responses gathered by independent research firm Sperling's BestPlaces. Sperling rates schools in categories like sexual assault programs, availability of contraceptives, and student peer groups...
...modern foreign language is meant to be spoken," Sarkozy said in his latest assault on the kinds of tradition-bound practices that he believes are holding the country back economically. "Pointing something that obvious out isn't futile in a country where Latin is an oral exam on the baccalaureate, while the leading modern language is evaluated in written form." (See pictures of Sarkozy celebrating Bastille...
...literally hangs from cliffs and rocky promontories. White smoke rises from a village across a deep gorge. The screeching whistle of mortar fire echoes in the expansive valley as troops target militants in a village five miles away. Cobra helicopter gunships buzz overhead. Two weeks into its ambitious ground assault on the Pakistani Taliban's heartlands, the Pakistani army has edged its way east and says it is poised to make fresh gains against the Central Asian and Taliban fighters who are hunkered down in the Kaniguram Valley, faintly visible in the distance...