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...idea led Lewis from his family's sharecropper farm in Alabama to the front lines of the battle for racial justice during the 1960s; he never flinched as he suffered arrests and beatings during the lunch-counter sit-ins in Nashville, Tenn., the Freedom Rides and the brutal police assault on "Bloody Sunday" in Selma, Ala., that paved the way to the movement's greatest triumph, the Voting Rights...
...eventually lead to discipline problems at school. Alan Skriloff, assistant superintendent of personnel and curriculum for New Jersey's North Brunswick school system, notes that there has been an increase in mock-sexual behavior in buses carrying students to school. He insists there have been no incidents of sexual assault but, he says, "we've dealt with kids simulating sexual intercourse and simulating masturbation. It's very disturbing to the other children and to the parents, obviously." Though Skriloff says that girls are often the initiators of such conduct, in most school districts the aggressors are usually boys...
...Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) arrested Joshua M. Elster '00 on Saturday, Jan. 31, from his Kirkland House room on three counts of rape and two counts of assault and battery. He was released on $10,000 cash bail and later indicted by a grand jury in Cambridge on the five original counts and an additional count of indecent assault and battery which refers to the sexual nature of the offense with which he has been charged. Elster's case is now in the pre-trial stages in the Superior Court. The next court date is scheduled for September...
This week's rape and assault allegations against Kirkland House sophomore Joshua M. Elster have shocked the Harvard community. Whether or not the allegations prove true, Elster's arrest has served as a catalyst for overdue discussions about the prevalence of rape and date rape on campus and it has exposed the University's ability--whether intentional or not--to suppress sensitive, yet public information...
After Bush's defeat in 1992, Kristol stayed in Washington, where he founded a conservative think tank and served as a key Republican strategist. Kristol engineered the successful Republican assault on the Clinton health care reform plan...