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...owner of the Harvard Square hair salon About Hair, already charged with running a prostitution ring out of the store, pled not guilty on Tuesday in Cambridge District Court to a new, separate charge of rape...
After his October 2005 arrest following charges of running a prostitution operation out of his Harvard Square salon, About Hair owner Duncan W. Purdy, 52, will be arraigned in court tomorrow morning on a separate charge of rape. Earlier this week, Duncan was indicted for allegedly raping a customer in March 2004. The customer, a then-19-year-old woman, reported to police, after learning of Purdy’s arrest on the sex-selling charges, that he touched her “inappropriately and raped her” during a scheduled massage two years ago, according to a Middlesex...
...particularly large loss was the Lyman Common Room in Radcliffe Yard, which served as a de facto women’s center and left Harvard as the only Ivy League institution without a comparable space. Even as recently as 2002, Harvard changed its crime reporting rules, making proving a rape accusation nearly impossible–a change that was widely protested and later overturned...
...members of different genders room together there’s an increased chance of abuse,” Eddie Y. Lee ’08 said. “If there’s a dating couple that decides to room together, there might be an increased probability of rape, an increased probability of sexual abuse.” But co-ed rooming at Harvard and other colleges has not increased sexual violence, according to Kouskalis. Kouskalis said the housing director at the University of Pennsylvania told him the Philadelphia school had “absolutely no issues with sexual...
...rapidly claiming the race’s political middle ground. Republican Lieutenant Governor Kerry M. Healey ’82 began distancing herself from current Republican Governor Mitt Romney back in December, when she announced her support for a law requiring all hospitals to offer emergency contraception for rape victims. Romney had earlier vetoed the law. Reilly has also started competing for the moderate label, announcing in December that he was supporting a reduction of the state income tax to five percent. State Democratic leaders have continually opposed the tax cut. Former Massachusetts Turnpike Authority board member Christy Mihos recently...