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This frightening episode, and two reported incidents of sexual molestation of freshman women, led to increased demands from students and staff members for better security measures around the University. Yet the adminstration only replaced the student guards at the Science Center with armed, professional ones. Harvard refused to lock three of the building's four doors after business hours or limit access to the upper floors before 5 p.m. because such measures would be inconvenient for some faculty members. The administration also refused to increase the number of street lights in the Yard, even after six assaults of students near...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Intolerance of Opinions | 9/13/1989 | See Source »

This frightening episode, and two reported incidents of sexual molestation of freshman women, led to increased demands from students and staff members for better security measures around the University. Yet the administration only replaced the student guards at the Science Center with armed, professional ones. Harvard refused to lock three of the building's four doors after business hours or limit access to the upper floors before 5 p.m. because such measures would be inconvenient for some faculty members. The administration also refused to increase the number of street lights in the Yard, even after six assaults of students near...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Intolerance of Opinions | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

...investigators determined that it would take KGB safecrackers one to four hours to crack each lock inside the code room. Opening the CIA vault would trigger another set of sensors that would ring at the Marine post. It would also be recorded by a device that counted the number of times the door was opened and closed. This counter was displayed inside a tamperproof box: if a KGB spy tried to open it and change the number, he would destroy certain indicators inside the device. Having destroyed them, he would not be able to examine them in order to duplicate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moscow Bug Hunt | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

This frightening episode, and two reported incidents of sexual molestation of freshman women, led to increased demands from students and staff members for better security measures around the University. Yet the administration only replaced the student guards at the Science Center with armed, professional ones. Harvard refused to lock three of the building's four doors after business hours or limit access to the upper floors before 5 p.m. because such measures would be inconvenient for some faculty members. The administration also refused to increase the number of street lights in the Yard, even after six assaults of students near...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Intolerance of Opinions | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

...cavernous gap between the number of crimes committed and the space available to lock up criminals makes it almost impossible to budge those odds. According to Justice Department estimates, by the time the cells Bush wants to build are ready, the federal convict population will have grown to 84,000, which is 17,000 more than the expanded system is designed to accommodate. Study after study has shown that only a fraction of all reported crimes result in arrest, and only a fraction of those people arrested are sent to prison. During the past three decades, there have never been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our Bulging Prisons | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

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