Word: assaults
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...former law professor, is the head of the commission of the Duma that is seeing whether grounds exist to launch an impeachment process against BORIS YELTSIN. Yeltsin's alleged misdeeds are far graver than sexual misconduct: he stands accused of causing the collapse of the U.S.S.R., organizing the assault on the parliament in October 1993 and instigating the war in Chechnya, among other offenses. So far, none of the star witnesses--Yeltsin and other Kremlin bosses--have shown up to testify, something Filimonov blames on his lack of subpoena power. Still, the committee has already voted on the first three...
...reported that Harvard requires no mandatory sexual harassment and rape education for first-years during Orientation Week. However, there is such a mandatory program for all first-year students which was first implemented last year. It is called the "Safe Community" program, and it covers issues of rape, sexual assault, alcohol and the resources on campus where one can find help and support when faced with such problems. (The Crimson wrote a story on this safety program in its registration issue.) In fact, the program has been expanded to spend more time talking with students specifically about the occurrence...
...article titled "Coalition Vows to Fight Sexual Harassment, Broaden Awareness" (Nov. 2), there are advisers in each of the Houses and in the Yard who are receiving formal training on how to assist and help to counsel rape victims. Students may find the names of the Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment (SASH) advisers in the "Tell Someone" booklet they received this fall, or from their House office or the Freshman Dean's Office. KAREN E. AVERY...
Fried spearheaded the Reagan administration's assault on the Roe v.Wade decision, and he vociferously opposesaffirmative action programs that advocate officialfavoritism for blacks...
...takes up, which are more sinewy than the usual interpersonal mush (although the show has that too). Characters are confronted with challenges to their professional and personal integrity, as when Dana had to decide how the show should handle an interview with a star athlete who had committed an assault on one of its producers. (That episode ran without a laugh track, something the producers have wanted all along but the network agreed to only on this occasion...