Word: preventing
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...three rape rate is started by Penthouse and Playboy," Dines-Levi said. To combat such connections between pornography and violence, the Take Back the Night speaker implied that women should take militant action to prevent men from buying and viewing pornographic materials...
Lottery Footnote: Activist M. Scott Murphy '92, who spearheaded the successful effort to prevent 25 percent of the spaces in eight of 12 upperclass houses from being randomly assigned to freshmen, will be living in his second choice house next year--Lowell House. Lowell was one of four houses which had refused to participate in the new housing plan. So much for the effort, Scott...
...Union, Harvard's lawyers and real estate managers have become experts at using loopholes in the rent-control laws to raise rents and "gentrify" apartments, worsening the affordable housing crisis in Cambridge. We also note that Harvard was recently in the news for welding over its heating grates to prevent the homeless from sleeping on them. When can we expect to see our alma mater becoming part of the solution, rather than part of the problem, of affordable housing and homelessness...
Under last week's racketeering charges, the Government can freeze the Milken brothers' assets even before they are tried. Prosecutors are expected to ask the investment bankers to post a $1 billion bond to prevent such an asset seizure. Last week Milken said he would take a leave of absence from the firm to fight the charges. Said he: "After almost 2 1/2 years of leaks and distortions, I am now eager to present all the facts in an open and unbiased forum...
Several members of the team commented that the wind did bother them a little, but that didn't prevent the Crimson from blowing the Quakers away in convincing fashion, 8-1, at Beren Tennis Center in its first EITA match of the season...