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...importance of stopping sexual harassment cannot be underestimated. Earlier publicized cases, as well as last year's Faculty Council discussion, have focused attention on the plight of undergraduate harassment victims. The recent case illustrates that the problem is no less severe for graduate students and faculty member s, who, because they work in a narrow area of study cannot avoid continued interaction with the harasser. Women scholars at Harvard have found the path to tenure difficult enough: the added problem of sexual harassment threatens to ensure that the University's faculty will remain predominantly male...
...spent on defense overkill-more weapons than could ever be needed-we seem to have completely lost control of crime and the conditions that breed it. When Americans see fit to wall in their residential areas and pay to transform their loving pets into vicious guard dogs, our plight is tragic indeed...
This horror show fueled outrage among Americans, but did little to enlighten them about the Indochinese themselves. The often violent resentment directed towards the Vietnamese, Cambodian and Laotian refugees who have recently entered our communities shows how ignorant many Americans still are of the extraordinary plight of people whose hearts and minds were a focus of widespread concern little more than a decade...
With those words, Victor Giménez Landinez, Venezuela's Ambassador to the Organization of American States, summed up the plight of the 26 Latin American and Caribbean nations that met last week in Caracas, Venezuela. Just one year ago, Western bankers and public officials were scrambling frantically to avert a worldwide financial crisis as several Latin American countries tottered on the brink of default. The moneymen have since lent more than $45 billion to Brazil, Mexico and other Latin American nations to help them pay interest on about $275 billion in loans...
Many of the victims are illegal aliens or Skid Row transients who fear law-enforcement officials and thus do not complain about their plight. "Just to let you know how common all this is," says Rob Williams, an attorney with Florida Rural Legal Services, "there are 5,000 farm-labor contractors in the state of Florida, and about 100 are like Willie Warren...