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...sexual harassment should be publicized. Most important is the chilling deterrent effect such publicity would have on future cases of sexual harassment. A crucial factor in discouraging crime is the presumption that it will be punished. As long as the punishment for sexual harassment is kept secret, it will deter no one Harvard could be holding up Walcott as an example, censuring him, and forbidding him any future affiliation with Harvard, as a stunning example to all professors teaching fellows, and administrators that molestation of students will be severely dealt with instead, it quietly sticks by this member...
...tight academic job market, rising tuition rates and looming cuts in financial aid may have scared educational analysts and put fear in the hearts of many college officials, but it didn't deter many of this year's applicants to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS...
...threat of mutual rather than one-sided annihilation. American officials have refused to publicly rule out using nuclear weapons first where American interests or "global stability" were threatened Reagan reaffirmed that supposed willingness when he stated that one goal of his arms policy was "maintaining nuclear capability sufficient to deter conflict, under-write our national security and meet our commitment to allies and friends." The policy's keystone is keeping a high level of uncertainty the possibility exists that U.S. nuclear weapons would be employed to defend not only Western Europe, but the Persian Gulf. Israel, the Peoples Republic...
...indifference to outright opposition" from the police, the Angels have not yet been accused of any of the dire misdeeds that liberals fear and police apparently would love to reveal. The Angels--at least so far--obey the law. And though it is difficult to prove, they seem to deter crime and make the citizens around them feel safer...
Amid the welter of claims and counterclaims, President Ronald Reagan told reporters in Washington that the attack had come as a "complete surprise" to him. He said that it would not deter the U.S. from seeking a peaceful solution to the conflict, even though the U.S. had openly declared its support for Britain only a day earlier. Declared Reagan: "All I know is we will stand ready to help...