Word: crimed
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Buried in the more than 650 pages of Congress' reauthorization of the Higher Education Act this week is a signal that the federal government has finally gotten tough on campus crime...
...also made it possible for schools to tell a student's parents if the student broke state or federal laws or school policy on drug abuse, and requires colleges to keep a daily crime log open to the public. It also expanded the definition of "hate crimes" on campus to include acts based on gender or disability...
...none of that mattered unless they could get all sides to come to the table. It is challenge enough to perfect the punishment to fit the crime but even harder to craft it in a way that satisfies all the needs for justice from those who would have to bless it: the vengeful Republicans, the bitter Democrats, the rebellious Clinton, the righteous Ken Starr. And that wasn't very likely. The only glimmer of hope from the Republican side was coming from moderates who were worried about a backlash against the next ugly data dump, a spectacle that was sure...
...whose anguish may be too raw and primal for a male writer to understand. In the meantime, the two men circle each other, nearer and nearer, meeting by happenstance, then by design. At first it is only Dwight, the perpetrator, who understands what links the three of them. His crime makes him all-knowing, a sort of God. That's the dark truth at the center of Schwartz's story: the guilty see all too clearly, all too starkly, what the innocent can only guess...
According to the Cambridge police log, the victim claimed the suspects punched him in the head and took $120, a crime classified as unarmed robbery, larceny and assault and battery...