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...report first outlines the status of sex trafficking in the country today, citing the U.S. Department of Justice??s own estimate that “293,000 American youth are currently at risk of becoming victims of commercial sexual exploitation,” as well as discussing the 14,500 to 17,500 foreigners who are trafficked into the U.S. for the sex trade each year. Of these foreigners, 80 percent are women and 50 percent are minors...
...dominated environment. And the women’s center will finally be what Virginia Woolf asked for women, the better part of a century ago: a “room of our own.” Call it safe space, call it centralization of resources, call it much-delayed justice??it will be a place on the campus created by, for, and about women, a place that I felt the need for every day as an undergraduate...
...professors, and meetings are moved to other locations when larger attendance is expected for particularly contentious votes. Sanders Theatre is one of the largest venues available on Harvard’s campus, and is used to hold large classes such as Moral Reasoning 22, “Justice??—along with major concerts and shows. Administrators moved the March 15, 2005, Faculty meeting, at which professors passed the no-confidence motion, to the mainstage theater at Loeb Drama Center on Brattle Street, which holds a maximum capacity of 556, according to a University website. There...
...there is one thing I have learned over the course of last semester’s famously popular “Justice?? course, it is that although life may be unfair, human society can correct for these inequalities. In this respect, Harvard is morally obliged. There are thousands of people in the world—even on this hallowed campus, America’s so-called bastion of justice and equality—who are richer, smarter, and more talented than I am. And yet, despite this abomination, our society, steeped in the rhetoric of equal opportunity, does...
...searches and seizures. The professors also argued that the AUMF’s authorization of spying was implicit at best, while the 1987 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) explicitly prohibits any domestic spying except for 15 days following a declaration of war. “First, and most importantly, [Justice??s] argument rests on an unstated general ‘implication’ from the AUMF that directly contradicts express and specific language in FISA,” the professors wrote. “Specific and ‘carefully drawn’ statutes prevail over general statutes...