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...Department of Education is examining whether Harvard is in violation of Title IX of the Civil Rights Act of 1972. This law requires schools to provide students with access to “prompt and equitable” grievance procedures to resolve allegations of sexual harassment, the most severe form of which is sexual assault. The complaint argues that the corroboration rule violates Title IX because it treats complaints regarding sexual violence in a manner that is neither prompt nor equitable since other types of misconduct are investigated and disciplined without corroborative proof...
...Zinner:Certainly a mosquito bite should not prompt a call to a physician. Most of these cases have come on fairly suddenly, with fever and nausea, usually. The only way to confirm the virus is with a blood test. If people are worried that their symptoms are West Nile-related, they can ask a doctor for a blood test. That said, there is no specific treatment; we can only treat the symptoms...
...Korea, concern over the behavior of U.S. troops comes at a particularly sensitive time. Many younger Koreans resent the U.S. military presence on their soil. Sex crimes involving G.I.s prompt periodic outbursts of anti-Americanism. And last Wednesday, 3,000 angry demonstrators staged a noisy protest in downtown Seoul over the death of two young teenage girls who were crushed by a military vehicle during a June training exercise on a public highway not far from Tongduchon. Numerous apologies from the U.S. military have failed to cool growing public anger over the incident. The military has refused to relinquish jurisdiction...
...Afghan Model," involving massive air power directed by small numbers of U.S. special forces on the ground, operating in concert with indigenous rebel forces in an assault that would prompt massive defections from Saddam's army and force the quick collapse of his regime...
Jones said it was unlikely, though, that the changes would prompt Harvard to create a school of journalism...