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...other crimes. In each instance, the daily and weekly police logs, which are provided to The Crimson and many others on campus, make clear that such an incident took place. Thus, contrary to what is implied by the editorial, The Crimson already has the ability to “discern trends in campus crimes” and other events...
Furthermore, it is critical to the safety of students that HUPD is more open and forthcoming. Shedding light on campus crime can only increase safety at Harvard. Gaining access to these records would allow the press and the public to discern trends in campus crime as well as the police handling of individual incidents. By keeping these records secret, HUPD impedes its own goal of creating a safer campus...
Since opposition to Bush’s irresponsible incursions abroad is characterized as weakness, the hawks, apparently, measure defense strength not by one’s ability to discern what is in America’s security interest, but by one’s willingness to send American men and women into combat with little regard to the likely consequences of doing so. And instead of exposing this farce, much of the Democratic Party has chosen to whore itself out to the angry white male contingent in the United States and imperil our national security in a wasteful...
...have followed the child abuse scandal would be able to discern in Law the vestiges of a college student who came across to many who knew him as the pious paragon of Catholic virtue...
...Baudelaire. "Facts when facts are known, or it is possible to know them; imagination when facts are not available," he says of his method. Lévy says he only resorted to pure conjecture two or three times in the book, but it is up to the reader to discern those moments. His harrowing account of Pearl's decapitation by a Yemeni henchman includes unknowable embellishments: "As the Yemeni killer grabs and tears the collar of his shirt, he thinks of other hands. Of caresses. Of games from his boyhood." Lévy also conjures up the thoughts...