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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...
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...
...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...
...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...
...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...