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While Monday's headline runs in bold face "U.C. Defines Rape Narrowly," the entire point of the meeting was an attempt to broaden the definition of rape, as expressed in Massachusetts state law and in current Harvard policy. State law defines rape as "[s] exual intercourse or unnatural sexual intercourse by a person with another person who is compelled to submit by force and against his will or by threat of bodily injury, or sexual intercourse or unnatural sexual intercourse with a child under sixteen years of age," [Mass. Gen. Laws, 277, 639]. The two expanded definitions, put forward...
While Kinnock would have raised taxes on the middle class, Clinton offers tax cuts. And where Kinnock calls for expanding a nationalized health system, Clinton favors a much more conservative plan which would broaden employers' burdens for providing employee health care...
...council proposed to broaden the scope of punishable sexual crimes, however, by creating a new disciplinary category for "grey area" cases in which neither consent nor lack of consent is expressed...
...those who intend to major in chemistry or engineering but at liberal-arts majors who need at least some scientific literacy. Students will be under pressure to take two foreign languages, and there will be a growing emphasis on Chinese, Japanese and Russian. Academia's international horizons will broaden in other ways. Instead of a comfy junior year abroad in Paris or Perugia, many undergraduates will opt for more adventurous and exotic locales -- Eastern Europe, say, or Southeast Asia...
...seeking to broaden the diversity of the members," she says, adding that the club has experimented with community service projects...