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...mother of two and student at North Carolina Central reported to police that she had been raped by several Duke men’s lacrosse players after being hired as a stripper at a team party. The story filled national news broadcasts and occasioned protests in Durham, igniting friction between Duke and its surrounding community. In the wake of the allegations, the school fired its coach, Mike Pressler, and suspended the rest of the season. Three players currently await trial in the case.It was in the aftermath of the highly-charged and much-publicized Duke fiasco that Harvard ran through...
Despite the forum’s lack of friction, event organizers were pleased. Alexis I. Caloza ’04, the Lambda political chair and a second-year law student, described the forum as “an amazing opportunity to hear the candidates speak to the LGBT community...
...agencies about the two peroxide-based liquid explosives that could be used in a future attack against the U.S. - triacetone triperoxide (TATP) or hexamethylene triperoxide diamine (HMTD). The report describes how a terrorist would assemble bombs with these chemicals. Peroxide-based liquid explosives "are sensitive to heat, shock, and friction, can be initiated simply with fire or electrical charge, and can also be used to produce improvised detonators," the report states. "For example, TATP or HMTD may be placed in a tube or syringe body in contact with a bare bulb filament, such as that obtained from inside a Christmas...
...owner of Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams, a furniture manufacturer with revenues of more than $100 million a year. Both owners are gay, and although the factory is located in Taylorsville, N.C., a small, conservative city ("there are 14 traffic lights and 135 churches," jokes Gold), there has been little friction with employees. It's not a mystery to Gold: "We pay better than anyone [else] in the area, with better benefits." There have been small problems along the way, says Gold. "There have definitely been times that I've heard about when people haven't come to work...
...Friction between patients and their nurses may also account for the impulse to escape: the helpless elderly see the nursing staff as bored and grudging; though many nurses are heroically selfless, some think of themselves as stuck at the bottom of their profession. "Nurses who work in nursing homes traditionally have been stigmatized by their professional peers," says H. Terri Brower, a professor of nursing at the University of Miami's School of Nursing. Says Ruth Tappen, another professor at the school: "Nurses are not interested in working in nursing homes. They don't want to go near the places...