Word: harmfulness
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...with calls from men who ask if their own conduct constitutes abusive behavior, or who say that they want to stop battering a loved one but don't know how. Others have been frightened by the charges against O.J. Simpson and voice fears about their own capacity to do harm. "They're worried they could kill," says Rob Gallup, executive director of AMEND, a Denver-based violence prevention and intervention group. "They figure, 'If ((O.J.)) had this fame and happiness, and chose to kill, then what's to prevent...
...reconstruction or third-person testimony is needed. The truth of the event comes home to them with a painful certainty. Such was what happened last Thursday evening to Jamil Hamad, a reporter for 10 years in TIME's Jerusalem bureau. Fortunately, when the evening was over, no serious harm had come to Hamad or his family. But he had gained harsh new insight into a story he has long covered for us -- this time by becoming part...
...think it's a tragedy . . . to put him back in that environment," Kay Bottoms' lawyer told the press. Gay-rights attorneys, such as the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund's Evan Wolfson, said the case chisels away at a legal edifice in conservative states that assumes gay relationships harm children. "This court is an example to other courts as to how to limit bad precedents," Wolfson says...
...programs that strengthen families and community life. As enraging as the stories of fraud and waste may be, what has saddened most people is the evidence that a program designed with the best of intentions -- to help those most in need -- could end up doing them so much harm. Spending more money, on the right things, becomes a way of making amends...
...girlfriends from the team's hotel in Chicago; but in Detroit, Swiss team coach Roy Hodgson lightened up and lifted a sex ban on his players . . . Germany's national football team was also forbidden by its doctors to use their U.S. hotel swimming pool lest Chicago's ozone harm their lungs . . . Norway's state television has begged more than 2,000 workers to suspend a strike -- just for a day -- to let soccer-mad fans watch the World Cup Finals...