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This past Wednesday, 47 Massachusetts colleges, including Harvard, committed to an alcohol safety “action plan” that is riddled with flaws. The schools signed onto a Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) campaign that calls for harsh punishments for alcohol abuse, mandatory alcohol education for all student group members and substance-free housing to be provided by colleges for all interested students...
...most dangerous part of the DPH action plan, however, is the harsh punishment policy that it advocates for all schools. The plan suggests an initial abuse be punished by forced alcohol awareness-training, a second by disciplinary action and a third by probation or expulsion...
...presidency of Russia in 2000 on a promise to restore Moscow's grip on the rebellious republic of Chechnya. For the past two years, he regularly claimed victory was all but won. As the champion of order and stability, Putin enjoyed strong public standing, while the government's harsh censorship of news from the war zone nearly a thousand miles from the capital has kept the grim realities of the stalemated conflict off the front pages and out of the minds of ordinary Russians. Now the brazen takeover of a theater just three miles from the Kremlin has brought...
There are plenty of Americans not weaned on harsh Sharia Islamic law who would object to the videos’ presentation of a perfectly harmonious United States. Despite what the state department says, it is not an effortless task for outsiders to be integrated into our Judeo-Christian cultural fabric. In my quite diverse Los Angeles public elementary school and middle school, we had a few very devout Muslims. For the most part, people respected their beliefs, or saved giggles about their requisite robes and foreign-sounding names for “normal” friends later. But they were...
...square the church's 2000-year-old traditions of priestly authority and institutional survival with modern notions of accountability. Last week, a committee of American and Vatican bishops was redrafting the American bishops' proposed "zero tolerance" policy toward sexual abuse by priests that the Vatican had rejected as too harsh. But in Ireland, where the church's power has for centuries been pervasive, the damage caused by pedophile priests has been particularly corrosive. Collins' case shows why. In 1996, when McGennis was still serving as a parish priest a year after her first complaint, she went to her local bishop...