Word: assaults
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Last year it took the Harvard police several months to issue a warning to the community in the wake of a broad-daylight rape near the Weeks footbridge and an assault on a student near Mather. This fall the administration and the Harvard police have definitely been more responsive. It took only a week for the HUPD to post flyers around campus describing the armed home invasion and rape that took place a few blocks from Dunster House on September 7. According to Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, this expediency was due partly to the fact that...
...Klein, in his Newsweek column, wrote that he had signed his novel Primary Colors as Anonymous because he wished the novel to be evaluated on its own merit, not as the novel of a political columnist well-known the media. Klein had to evade an elaborate and concentrated media assault intent upon determining the identity of Anonymous. We take our anonymity for granted and even complain about...
Beckers was charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and assault with attempt to murder...
...main culprits are the amplifiers that sit along cable lines, keeping signals strong and clear during their downstream journey. Not only do these amps not work when messages are funneled upstream, they actually degrade signals already under assault from radio interference. "There's far more noise in the coaxial system than any of us expected to see," says a hardware executive who has been close to the cable-modem industry since its inception. "It's really difficult to drive the signals out over these lines. Every trial to date has run into that as a significant problem...
Then the artist regressed into his character. Shakur carried a gun and shot at people. He escaped conviction on a series of assault charges, but a 1993 sexual-abuse complaint stuck. He arrived for sentencing in a wheelchair; days earlier, he had been shot five times in a Manhattan "robbery" he regarded as a failed hit. Out on appeal last October, he sought protection under the wing of the massive, much feared Knight, who was deeply embroiled in his feud with Bad Boy and the East. In two years the conflict had moved far beyond artistic issues to beatings...