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...investigation concluded last May when the Ivy League members of Overlap, under pressure from the Justice Department, signed an agreement known as "the consent decree." The decree imposed a gag rule on financial aid offices, effectively ending the practice of jointly deciding aid awards...
After the trial ended, Bludworth insisted, "Based on the evidence, I would charge ((Smith)) again today. This wasn't date rape. They had just met. This was a sexual battery, intercourse without her consent." The police, prosecutors, rape counselors and the doctors who examined the woman believed her. During the investigation, she passed two polygraph tests and a voice- stress analysis. She stuck to her story through five grueling interrogations by police and prosecutors and an exhausting three-day deposition by the defense. The bruises on her torso were consistent with the attack she described. Says Bludworth: "There was absolutely...
...know that 400 people have to know anything. I think there is such a form of informational equilibrium that preserves the status quo that you can virtually call it silent consent...
...strategy for combatting the problem by January. Surgeon General Novello is among those who are trying to eliminate loopholes in states' minimum-age laws that make it easy for minors to buy and drink booze. For example, 35 states allow minors to possess alcohol under certain circumstances -- with parental consent, for instance, or in private residences. And 19 states have no laws that would punish teens for using false IDs to purchase alcohol...
...storm of protest from parents and religious leaders, who feared it would encourage sexual promiscuity. But New York City schools chancellor Joseph Fernandez insisted the urgency of preventing AIDS outweighed all other considerations. That argument prevailed, and last week two city high schools began distributing condoms, without parental consent, to any student who requested them...