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...similar indecent assault on a female first-year in Annenberg Hall in Sep. led the Freshman Dean's Office to ban tours of Annenberg, but HUPD officers say they are such assaults are the result of the University being in a urban setting...
...abroad, however, fear that a native mogul has cut a deal to buy the canvas on the cheap and then resell it to a foreign collector for a huge profit after bribing Culture Ministry officials to grant an export license or securing a legal move to lift the ban on exports. With three other Black Squares in Russian museums, they wonder, does the state desperately need a fourth? "The cries of saving Malevich for Russians are nonsense," says Konstantin Akinsha, a U.S.-based historian of Russian art. "This smells of greed and chicanery...
...interest? One reason is that electroshock remains a nagging scientific puzzle: it works a little bit like banging the side of a fuzzy TV--it just works, except when it doesn't. Second, a small but persistent group of advocates wants to ban it--they say it causes brain damage--and a larger, more mainstream group of activists wants more research before the treatment spreads any further. Many of these folks are former patients (or survivors, to use a term of choice), and they have helped persuade a handful of state legislatures to consider a ban. No states have agreed...
...Darkness Visible, inspired Hartmann and millions of others. Last summer Styron underwent electroshock for the first time. He had asked several prominent psychiatrists about the option, and they agreed it could help. It didn't, though he says he didn't suffer any negative side effects. "Anyone who would ban it is ridiculously off base," he says...
...Harvard history professor's claim that Asian-Americans are the greatest beneficiaries of the University of California's affirmative action ban has come under fire in a recent study...