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This fall's version of the report promises tobe a flashpoint in the growing battle over TitleIX at Harvard. Several coaches have requested tosee the report...

Author: By Crimson Staff, | Title: Five Questions Facing Harvard | 9/15/1993 | See Source »

This fall's version of the report promises tobe a flashpoint in the growing battle over TitleIX at Harvard. Several coaches have requested tosee the report...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Questions Facing Harvard Athletics | 9/13/1993 | See Source »

...Roden, who then headed the sect with his mother Lois. It ended with Howell being driven from the sect at gunpoint. He briefly established his own desolate congregation, living with them in tents and packing crates in nearby Palestine, Texas. But the feud between the two men reached another flashpoint soon after, when Roden disinterred the corpse of a female church member with the intention of bringing her back to life. Contending that Roden had violated the woman's body, Howell and a number of followers returned to the Waco compound to shoot it out with the Roden group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Koresh: Cult Of Death | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

...radio also said two protesters were wounded in the Jabaliya refugee camp, a flashpoint of the almost daily anti-Israeli demonstrations, where residents attacked an army patrol with stones and sticks embedded with nails...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Death Toll in Gaza Strip Hits 32 in Five Weeks | 1/13/1988 | See Source »

...think Dean Michael Spence is correct in stating that the University has a clear interest in the number and incidence of controversial speakers appearing here. The reason for this is clear enough: such speakers are a flashpoint for turmoil. This turmoil emanates from the unwillingness of foes of controversial speakers to regulate or dampen the emotionalism associated with their opposition. Thus turmoil-inducing events must be managed through University machinery--University police, administrative proctors, etc--and there are not infinite resources to be allocated to this task...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Controversial Speakers | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

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