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...doing enough to intervene. And, of course, there can be hell to pay for failing to protect other students when the red flags - at least in hindsight - seem clear. At large campuses like Virginia Tech's, which has 26,000 students, there can be hundreds who are in psychological distress or long-term counseling. Says Kevin Kruger, associate executive director of a national association of student-affairs administrators: "Making decisions about when to have those students leave and when to have them stay is very, very tricky...
...cancer,” Bok said. “Last week, unfortunately, he suffered a setback that resulted in some acute and persistent pain. On doctor’s orders, he is at home while specialists at Mass. General Hospital work at developing an effective means at relieving that distress...
...United States. The raid that displaced Dau occurred in the midst of the Second Sudanese Civil War, a conflict between Sudan’s northern Arab government and non-Arab forces in the country’s south that ended in 2005. After fleeing his village in distress, enduring extreme hunger and thirst, and weathering ambushes by Arab troops, Dau eventually reached a refugee camp in Ethiopia, he said last night. There, Dau explained, he became an informal leader among a group of as many as 200 boys, all refugees who had fled the violence in Sudan. In 1991, when...
...Richter scale, and the ensuing wall of water that swept away anything in its path as it reached land, have left a quarter of the area's population without a home. Unlike in Asia's 2004 tsunami, the water has not receded, adding to the locals' distress...
...Following the police raid, activists armed with stones and Molotov cocktails clashed with police, setting cars on fire and sacking a high school. Some 650 arrests were made, including 140 foreign activists who had raced from neighboring countries to answer the distress calls of the protestors...