Word: lessers
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While a Boston Blobe story left open the possibility that the events of April 4 were consensual, the court statements to which Douglas pled guilty depict a situation in which the women he assaulted repeatedly his advances. But faculty members proposing a lesser punishment for Douglas wrote in a letter to the Crimson that "Rape is not an undifferentiable single act. Rather it is a category of acts that vary dramatically in their causes and consequences...it is easy to imagine rapes that warrant the most severe penalty we can confer, if not more, It is our belief that this...
...rape, including stranger rape, acquaintance rape and date rape. Situations can vary, as can the relationship between the attacker and the attacked, but they fundamental act of rape-forcing someone to have sex against their will-remains the same and should be punished severely. Rape is not a lesser crime if it is committed by a friends or acquaintance or if the person raped has been drinking. To attempt to distinguish degrees of punishment according to the context surrounding the rape diminishes the idea that rape itself, no matter the context, is a physically and psychologically destructive act committed against...
...place of Laclos's 18th century decadents, Cruel Intentions offers us a modern prep-school Lothario (Ryan Phillippe, who looks a little like Leonardo DiCaprio on mean pills) and his half-sister (Sarah Michelle Gellar, deploying her TV vampire-slaying smarts in a lesser cause). But what they do on their summer vacation (misspent in upper-crust Manhattan and Long Island) is the same old story--an elaborate scheme to deflower a couple of virgins (Reese Witherspoon and Selma Blair) whose virtue irritates and challenges them. As in all the other versions of this story, they succeed, but eventually receive...
Douglas was also indicated in Middlesex Superior Court on one count of rape, though that charge was placed on hold. But even in convicting him of the lesser charge of indecent assault and battery, the court documents paint a story without the ambiguities that were raised during Tuesday's Faculty meeting...
Some professors advocated a requirement towithdraw for five years--a lesser punishment thandismissal because students who withdraw are moreoften allowed to return to Harvard...