Word: hammering
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...what happens now? Detractors will probably continue to hammer at the document even as it's readied for the Sex and Relationships Education Conference starting Sept. 7 in Birmingham, England. The guidelines will then be presented to the U.N. in New York City sometime in October, at which point governments and education officials can either act on or ignore them as they wish. There's a chance that, in the U.S., UNESCO's recommendations will be drowned out by the knee-jerk outrage of conservative pundits. But at least the guidelines can undergo sober and thoughtful examination in more open...
Those packs of freshmen aren't the only new thing on campus today. Rapper and twitter guru MC Hammer is at the Faculty Club now to deliver a lecture on social media. This is his second talk on twitter at Harvard in less than a year (last February, he was at the Business School...
...dollars to get in, but you can watch live on CNN's website. The big man himself gives his keynote at 11:50 a.m. There's also a free after party at Om beginning at 5:30 this evening, but no word yet on whether Hammer will make an appearance...
...cause some degree of pain or discomfort." There is no comprehensive definition of corporal punishment under U.S. state or federal law. The ACLU and Human Rights Watch documented cases of corporal punishment including hitting children with a belt, a ruler, a set of rulers taped together or a toy hammer; pinching, slapping or striking very young children in particular; grabbing children around the arm, the neck or elsewhere with enough force to bruise; throwing children to the floor; slamming a child into a wall; dragging children across floors; and bruising or otherwise injuring children in the course of restraint...
...contrast, the United States is not a society that protects its members against cults and perceived mind control. We tolerate the existence of skinheads and the Ku Klux Klan, flag burning, the swastika, and the hammer and sickle. We don’t interfere with the Amish, although their lifestyle represents a wholesale rejection of mainstream American society. We have a history of tolerating open expression of life-styles that are antithetical to mainstream values. Hippies in the 60’s were not only extremely objectionable to most of American society, but belligerent towards that society, and yet there...