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...more frequent use of emergency-leave policies. But after several students complained about getting summarily booted, the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights started informing schools that a person should be considered a direct threat only when there is "a high probability of substantial harm and not just a slightly increased, speculative or remote risk." In other words, there needs to be a detailed evaluation and at least some opportunity for students to make a case for why they should be allowed to stay...
...LaTrémouille and Wellons, a housewife with a master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia University, routinely appear at council meetings to speak out against development and zoning policies that they say would diminish the city’s open space or harm its wildlife population...
...obligation to do and cannot be enforced. It is this simple and this unfair. There must be a better way out of this than to top this travesty with threatening Iran in the Security Council with possible sanctions and perhaps even use of force. This path can potentially cause harm and suffering at differing degrees to all parties to the conflict...
...that when it is not lumped together with serious, abusive forms of corporal punishment, spanking doesn't look so bad. In a longitudinal study of 168 white, middle-class families, Diana Baumrind and Elizabeth Owens, psychologists at the University of California, Berkeley, found that occasional mild spanking does not harm a child's social and emotional development...
...point in our conversation, Duane pointed out a student wearing an Atlanta Braves shirt, prominently featuring a controversial Indian mascot. I personally do not support these mascots, feeling they stereotype and harm real, living Indian people. I had even written a speech on this issue for high school forensics tournaments. None of this, however, prepared me for what Duane did next...