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...period for which the statistics are reported varies from school to school because there is no set protocol required by the law. The only requirement is that statistics for a variety of campus crimes be "prepared, published, and distributed through appropriate publicity or mailings...
...both still believing that the Square was a funky urban paradise, were walking along Dunster Street. Out of nowhere, a hyperactive skinhead ran up to us, punched me in the nose and promptly ran away. I don't lack experience with the big city. The standard mugger protocol is to ask for the wallet, and failing victim compliance, to take it by force. This clownish freak skipped that step entirely. What is done in other cities for lucre is done here for love alone...
Similarly, the Montreal Protocol to protect the ozone layer is often trotted out as an example of how the international community successfully came to grips with a dire threat. Unfortunately, the protocol is not a success for the ozone layer, which will continue to deteriorate as CFCs manufactured during years of international temporizing wander upward to the stratosphere like leisurely assassins. Bush ridiculed this threat during the '92 campaign, calling Gore "Ozone Man," but in fact the loss of the world's upper atmospheric shield is one environmental threat that has people genuinely scared...
...earth's protective ozone layer is vanishing even faster than predicted. That warning from scientists has led 93 nations to agree to speed up phasing out use of chemicals that destroy the atmospheric shield. Updating the timetable known as the Montreal Protocol, delegates at a United Nations conference in Copenhagen moved up elimination of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and carbon tetrachloride to 1996, four years ahead of schedule. Halons and methyl chloroform will be banned earlier too, in 1994 and 1996, respectively. Researchers forecast more skin cancer as the ozone layer disappears...
...royal family is to act as a sort of projection for people's emotions or aspirations. Diana's contemporaries, especially women, see her as a kind of feminist heroine, a fighter who knows her own worth, what she wants out of life and how to flout traditional protocol to get it. Even Camille Paglia, the American feminist movement's holy terror, got the message and has jumped on the bandwagon. Writing in the New Republic, she argued that "Diana may have become the most powerful image in world popular culture today...