Word: harmfulness
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...goin to make an example of Milton Colman!" cried the religious leader on a radio show broadcast from Chicago. "What do [we] intend to do to Mr. Coleman? At this point, no physical harm . . . We're going to punish the traitor and make the traitor beg for forgiveness . . . One day soon we will punish you with death! . . . This is a fitting punishment for such dogs." Coleman's wife, he promised, would "go to hell . . . the same punishment that's due that no-good, filthy traitor." The speaker: Louis Farrakhan, leader of the black Nation of Islam...
...just waiting for further instructions." Rosenberg said, adding. "I don't think in the long run they'll harm...
...much clearer if there were posters all around campus proclaiming that sexual violence against women is "fun," "exciting" and "okay." This is the kind of speech which our Constitution has never protected without qualification (direct incitement to criminal violence). The courts have upheld other limitations of speech where direct harm of this kind (or actually, much less direct harm) has been shown. The question, as Catherine MacKinnon (an associate professor of law at the University of Minnesota and co-author of the proposed Minneapolis anti-pornography ordinance) put it in a speech at the Law School last week, is "will...
...woman, Nancy J. Covello '87, said yesterday that although the intruder did not threaten or harm her, he had stolen $4 and ransacked several drawers in her four-woman Wigglesworth suite before she discovered him around...
Massachusetts statutes define rape as "sexual intercourse by a person with another person who is compelled to submit by force and against his will or by threat of bodily harm." (Intercourse with someone under 16 is also considered rape.) Thus, a prosecutor must prove two things to obtain a guilty verdict: 1) that sexual intercourse occurred, and 2) that it took place against the victim's will...