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...addition to confronting crime, vandalism and irate drivers, the security, parking and museum guards had to confront the lowest wages at Harvard, as well as the greatest reduction in membership due to outsourcing...

Author: By Stephen Mccombe, | Title: Security Guards Deserve Appreciation | 5/10/2002 | See Source »

Hard to believe, Ensign? Thank a shortsighted foreign policy that failed to confront Norse extremism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What in the World Is Going On? | 5/6/2002 | See Source »

...nation. Since 1991 hundreds of pedophiles have gone to the creaky Victorian building that houses his clinic. Berlin sees their condition as similar to alcoholism--incurable but treatable--and some of his methods sound similar to those of Alcoholics Anonymous. The pedophiles must admit their urges and confront them in group therapy. Counselors help them restructure their lives so that they don't come into contact with children. Berlin prescribes medication to reduce sex drives for the 30% of his patients who don't respond to nondrug therapy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pedophilia | 4/29/2002 | See Source »

...February meeting with the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS), Faust said the merger marked a positive step for female undergraduates by forcing the College to confront women’s issues...

Author: By Catherine E. Shoichet, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Radcliffe's Role Unclear to Students | 4/29/2002 | See Source »

...Europe takes a holiday, and the left takes to the streets. This year's big demonstrations promise to stir up deep ideological passions, about everything from immigration to Third World debt to free speech. In Paris, opponents of surprise presidential runner-up Jean-Marie Le Pen plan to confront the far-right nationalist as he leads his annual march in honor of Joan of Arc. Meanwhile, Londoners are braced for a rematch, complete with footballs, between globalization foes and the police who penned them in at Oxford Circus last year. Well, what about labor? It's the reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marching In Place | 4/28/2002 | See Source »

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