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...forced to the courts like everyone else in America, intelligent, respected and politically adept Harvard students might be able to change legal system's problematic attitude toward sex crime victims--for the benefit of all. The College could still punish student offenders, based on the court's judgments...

Author: By Kenneth A. Katz, | Title: And Justice for Some | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

...recently put an abused wife in jail. Why did you punish the victim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Judge Whose Ideas Nearly Got Him Killed: Howard Broadman | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

...same preference for stability has shaped the Administration's policy on China. The White House has consistently fought attempts by Congress to punish Beijing for its suppression of human rights. Bush is almost certain to veto a measure approved by the Senate last week. It would impose stringent conditions on the annual renewal of China's most-favored-nation trading status in July, requiring China to release all political prisoners, effectively open its markets to U.S. goods and take "clear and unequivocal" steps to curb sales of arms and nuclear technology abroad. Baker also rejects this ultimatum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy Boldness Without Vision | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

...past, Saddam repeatedly turned his guns on the Kurds. In 1975 he began forcing them out of their border villages. In 1988, to punish them for providing aid and comfort to Iran during the eight-year war, he stepped up the campaign. All told, he had his army obliterate 4,200 Kurdish villages. At least 180,000 people disappeared, purportedly into camps in the south. Most never returned, and some Western experts believe they were killed. When Kurds -- encouraged then abandoned by Washington -- rebelled after the Iraqi defeat in Kuwait last year, Saddam battered them again, sending 1.2 million fleeing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: A Land of Stones | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

...JOKED about being a dictator in his class who could establish arbitrary rules with impunity. He said he would punish students who did go to reporters with information about the class. Epps seemed to back him up with some arcane professor's privilege rule about not allowing the press into class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Open the Classroom | 2/4/1992 | See Source »

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