Word: assaults
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...fellows is that it can also make weird sparring partners. In June Renata Adler published two long articles in successive issues of The New Yorker on the libel trials of General William Westmoreland v. CBS and General Ariel Sharon v. Time Magazine. The pieces were a full-scale assault on the libel laws and a scathing attack on the two media giants for bungling--and then vehemently defending--their stories on the two former commandants...
...police said yesterday that the assault last week was probably not connected with a rape which took place near the Law School about two weeks...
Morse said the police will increase surveillance in the area. He said, however, that there has not been an unusual number of assault incidents so far this year. "There's a lot less here than in most areas," he said...
Joshua H. Henkin's editorial of October 30, constitutes the beginning of an articulate rebuttal to Washington columnist Richard Cohen's assault on the individual rights of Blacks. At issue is the "ethical dilemma" faced by a Washington, D.C. jewelry store owner who wonders whether to admit a young Black man at the front-door buzzer. Henkin defends the rights of the individual not to be judged by his color, but he misses the preeminent point to be made here...
What would have happened if the game had been in Cambridge? Most likely, Harvard patrolmen would have asked students suspected of assault and battery to volunteer to hand over their bursar's cards if they were in fact involved...