Word: protected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hopes the Faculty will ignore Shinagel's proposal. Harvard should be an advocate, not an opponent, of the free press. Presumably, the free speech committee was formed to protect, not impede, our First Amendment rights. Drafting guidelines for campus publications would place the committee in the role of censor--when American society has already affirmed in numerous laws and court cases the freedom of the press...
...University ought to force the editors to divulge the tip. But this is for the paper to decide, not the University. Freedom of the press ultimately means that no outside authority has the right to threaten a newspapers's coverage of events, its editorial decisions, or its right to protect its sources...
Determined to protect themselves and their homes, more women are buying guns and learning how to shoot -- but are they any safer...
...cigarette dangling from the corner of their mouth, and they're not closet commandos." Though more women are appearing at shooting ranges and gun clubs, the sporting aspect is not really the issue. The vast majority who are buying guns -- about 75%, by most estimates -- are doing so to protect their homes and themselves...
...owners and sociologists agree that the trend reflects a change of thinking, a rejection of traditional roles. Jerome Skolnick, a professor at the University of California law school at Berkeley, describes the increased gun ownership among women as a "gender revolution. The notion that only men protect is no longer valid." Agrees Teryl Jansons, a Massachusetts attorney: "People are less apt to take advantage of your situation, since you don't look like you're afraid -- because...