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...committee’s first recommendation needs to include increased educational efforts to make every student aware that sexual assault is a non-consensual sexual act involving force, manipulation or coercion; it is an act of aggression and violence. Rape education should be mandatory for every undergraduate and cannot be limited to the first weeks or even the first year of college. It is unlikely that first-year preventative education alone can effectively address the multiple concerns that students potentially face when dealing with the issue of sexual assault. Education needs to be repeated every year...
...other government buildings and mosques; for security forces to accompany the inspectors into Iraq; for the right of permanent Security Council member states (Russia, China, France, Britain and the U.S.) to put their own personnel on any inspection team; access to Iraqi scientists in an environment free from coercion; the right of inspectors to declare no-fly, no-drive exclusion zones within Iraq; and so on. The draft resolution reportedly also authorizes the use of force if Baghdad violates any of the demands. But the U.S. and Britain are struggling to find Security Council support for their position...
...Cruise, you must understand his relationship with the Church of Scientology, an organization that advocates self-styled scientific methods as cures for ailments of the body, mind and spirit. Founded by the prolific science-fiction novelist L. Ron Hubbard, who died in 1986, Scientology has been accused of using coercion to keep its members in line and intimidation to squelch criticism of its tactics. (Scientology sued TIME in 1992 for libel over a 1991 cover story's portrayal of the church as a ruthless cult; the case was decided in TIME's favor in 2001, when the U.S. Supreme Court...
...precisely where the balance lies is a matter of serious, even bitter debate. At one extreme are those who believe that most trials are tainted because they play on the fears of desperately ill patients, involve some sort of subtle coercion like money or free medicine or fail to warn patients of the very real dangers they face. Some critics argue as well that there are simply too many trials, as pharmaceutical companies looking for a share of the blockbuster drug market pump out copycat medicines that no one really needs...
...prominent themes underlie Cohen’s analysis of America’s historical, cultural and political influence on Asia. First, he claims that the popularity of American culture in Asia did not occur through coercion but was a choice made Asians themselves, who “manipulated Americans as best they could, and selected those parts of American culture they believed would improve the quality of their lives.” As evidence, Cohen cites James L. Watson’s well-known study of McDonald’s in East Asia, Golden Arches East. Watson argues that countries...