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...decrees that a person under attack "has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground and meet force with force, including deadly force if he or she reasonably believes it is necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony...
...keep these detainees in this pattern, this situation, indefinitely," a senior official said. By then, the official number of suicide attempts was 32, though I knew it was actually far higher. The military kept the number low by labeling most attempted suicides as "manipulative self-injurious behavior" or "self-harm" incidents, a practice that became more frequent as time went on. In January 2005, the Pentagon disclosed that 350 "self-harm" incidents had occurred in 2003, including 120 "hanging gestures...
...Stolk-Riley ’06, Lowell HoCo Treasurer, explaining that during the first Lowell Bacchanalia, BAT team members initially refused to open up four bars for alcohol. Several HoCo leaders also claim that BAT team members have trouble dealing with logistical aspects of the party, and do more harm than good...
...Breakdown: Though bodily injury is a common aspect of the pick-up game, physical harm is inevitable at the outdoor courts behind Mather House . “The wrong kind of people congregate there,” says Dunster resident Aaron F. Alexander-Bloch ’06. As the stomping grounds for Cambridge high school students as well as teams of ornery 30 year-olds eager to prove themselves against the younger set, the players here all-too-often tend to feel that their manhood is at stake. Bloch recalls numerous occasions when he had to leave court...
Critics would argue that no one has the right to create a hostile environment for others. A boss who demands sexual favors for promotions or a co-worker who threatens to harm another worker should not be tolerated. Nonetheless, these valid concerns should be differentiated from an expansive political correctness that is, in reality, an attempt to protect people’s feelings. While threats or physical action against a co-worker are illegal and prosecutable, an ill-placed joke or an out-of-the-mainstream opinion is not. Harvard, at least on paper, recognizes this fact. The Handbook...