Word: misconduct
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...also encouraged everyone in the audience to attend a march on Washington to protest police misconduct that is scheduled for August 28 on the 37th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s March on Washington...
...recent front-page story out of Maryland presented a nightmarish scenario for teachers and other adults who work with children as volunteer coaches, tutors or scout leaders. The story concerns a gym teacher who was accused of sexual misconduct--hugging, fondling and sexual remarks--by seven middle-school students. The teacher's reputation, unblemished through 32 years in the classroom, was in ruins--until the kids eventually recanted their stories...
...earlier informal charge that she hoped would put Smith's career under special scrutiny. To add insult to injury, the Army has seen this kind of scenario before: In 1997, Major General David Hale was appointed briefly to the post of deputy inspector general before multiple allegations of sexual misconduct ended his career...
...ranks all male. By 2004, when nearly all vessels will be opened to women, the Navy is projecting that the average crew will be 12% female. (In January the Navy closed a chapter on the Tailhook scandal, restoring official ties with the group after exacting a pledge that the misconduct of 1991 would not recur...
...heart of the case. If the unarmed Amadou Diallo had been a white youth instead of a dark-skinned immigrant from Africa, would he be alive today? "Race didn't become an issue during the trial," says attorney Johnnie Cochran, who got his start prosecuting cases of police misconduct in Los Angeles long before he ever heard of O.J. Simpson and who briefly served as a legal adviser to Diallo's family. "It was like there was a big pink elephant in the room and everyone acted like it wasn't there...