Word: corrections
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...believe it is appropriate and correct for Harvard and for all educational institutions to define basic values about sexual conduct so that there can be no ambiguity about the individual's right to choose when, where and how to approach sexual relations. On this I agree with the author, if I understand her correctly. However, this article brings up much larger social issues which go far beyond the scope of the article itself...
...sort was unfolding: a crowd of gay activists carried signs, shouted slogans and continued their efforts to disrupt the action. The number of arrests mounted last week as they violated a temporary restraining order to stay 100 ft. away. In what moviemakers see as a dangerous form of politically correct censorship, the protesters are demanding that the script be changed because it depicts lesbians as murderers and contains a scene in which they claim a woman is date-raped...
...political heat that might otherwise burn a popular President. Now Sununu is generating the heat and turning into a potential liability. Aides say that Bush, while annoyed at Sununu's excesses, continues to value his services. The President, they say, hopes that Gray's investigation will allow Sununu to "correct" his travel reimbursements and put the matter behind him. But that can only happen if Sununu stops stonewalling and explains, fully and publicly, the details of these junkets and the interests that bankrolled them...
...cause? What if, to use a theme from science fiction, a person could go into the past and kill his or her grandmother at an early age? Such a concept appears to make no sense, yet it must have some meaning if Gott's and Thorne's ideas are correct, as they appear to be. Says Gott: "At some point physics will have to find some mechanism by which these things are forbidden, or else learn to live with them." With two examples in hand, the paradox can no longer be ignored...
...correct answer is that this isn't a hypothetical scenario. Last spring, Harvard administrators did find out that the tap water had been contaminated with high levels of carcinogenic trihalomethanes for 16 months. But rather than inform the community immediately, officials waited for four weeks to make any official announcement. (They claimed that the information was too "alarming" to tell students immediately...