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...Tunisia's Ministry of the Interior. In October the ripples from Tunisia's approach to human rights reached Washington: a federal judge ordered the U.S. government not to send a Guantánamo detainee home to Tunisia, fearing he'd be tortured in jail and suffer "devastating and irreparable harm." Ten Tunisians remain in Guantánamo, and Refaï says they can expect many years in prison if they are repatriated...
...History professor Edmund Burke of the University of California at Santa Cruz emphasized the harm that outside voices could cause to tenure decisions...
...California, where the population has more than tripled since 1950, in excess of 50% of new housing has been built in a severe-fire zone. That's risky for obvious reasons: If more people choose to live in areas threatened by fire, more people will be in harm's way when disaster finally strikes. But those houses, especially if owners fail to prioritize fire safety, are often more sensitive to fire than are untouched forests, and just a few scattered houses in the woods can amplify a wildfire. "Isolated homes surrounded by natural vegetation are probably the most dangerous combination...
...report recommended three reforms. It formally enshrined the College’s “amnesty policy” in the Handbook for Students, though the recommendation had already been operating for several years. It rephrased the Student Handbook so that, in cases where “serious harm, or the potential for serious harm, has come to any person as a result of consumption of alcohol or drugs,” the hosts of the event and possibly the officers of the student group could be held personally responsible. Lastly, it mandated all student groups—official...
...rather a requirement of his office. “I am not so naive to think that people underage are going to stop drinking,” he says. “What I am constitutionally charged to do is try to make sure that people come to no harm...