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IMPROVING the comfort level at Harvard for victims to bring sex crime cases before the Ad Board may prove to be a pyhrric victory in the battle against sex crimes in America...

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

Editor's Note: The phrase Pyhrric victory was not inspired by the Peloponnesian War but by the disastrous strategies of the Greek king Pyhrrus in his war against the Romans in the Italian region of Magna Graecia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Language | 12/6/1986 | See Source »

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