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Evil sneaks inside, steals laptops, burgles rooms, even rapes. Against such intrusion Harvard deploys police, guards, locks, and awareness, what all of us see as a common and largely successful effort against harm. We glance at the stranger, report the lurker, lock the door. About all that Assassin teaches little. No one calls the game Perimeter Defense or Scotland Yard. Yet our continuous awareness, sometimes great, sometimes less, of external threat frequently deflects out attention from the very real harm now and then occasioned by people inside the gates. Assassin is basic training against date-rape...

Author: By Professor JOHN R. stilgoe, | Title: IN THE MEANTIME | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...night a young woman hung herself in the max-unit, many others cried...She was a frightened and confused person who needed help. Instead she was locked in a room, the door shut. Put in seclusion. She was a new mother...The officers couldn't or didn't save her. They tried to run things as if nothing happened that night. Something had--a little piece of everyone died with the realization of how fragile reality is, how cruel it is to lock human beings up as if they were animals." So wrote a woman in prison in the book...

Author: By Justin P. Steil, | Title: Punishing Prison Inmates | 4/20/1999 | See Source »

...guess I can understand why they're doingit," he said. "But it kind of sucks for peoplelike me that they're going to lock us out, becauseI do all my studying there...

Author: By Robin M. Wasserman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Langdell Denies Undergrad Study Space | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...park or lock your bike to the iron gates surrounding the courtyard or anywhere near the ramp leading up to New Quincy. Blocking the ramp makes it difficult for anyone with a disability...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: As Follows: | 4/15/1999 | See Source »

Having reached an agreement with team owners over that thorny lock-out issue, the NBA players association has turned to another matter plaguing professional basketball: impudent mascots. The association has filed a complaint against the Phoenix Suns, alleging that the team's mascot, the GORILLA, insulted visiting Sacramento Kings center OLIVER MILLER. At a recent game the Gorilla donned a Kings jersey with Miller's No. 8 on it and stuffed it with pillows, a rather unkind jab at Miller's robust 6-ft. 9-in., 370-lb. physique. Miller called the skit racist and said it embarrassed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 12, 1999 | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

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