Word: redresses
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...complaint process is the only means of redress a student has when a firm makes racist remarks," said Nyria Melchor, a second year law student...
What is needed at this tragic juncture is not short-sighted sectarianism, but rather the unity and moral courage to redress injustice. It is tragic that even the Arab students at Harvard have fallen victim to compromising their sense of justice. It is time for all Arabs to recliam their sense of dignity, to uphld their common morality, by acting together to oppose aggression and liberate Kuwait...
...find their complaints are not treated seriously. Gang rape is too frequently dismissed as (somehow more acceptable) group sex, for instance. Women are frequently pressured to drop charges. Says Gail Abarbanel, director ! of the rape treatment center at the Santa Monica Hospital Medical Center in California: "A victim seeking redress often finds herself silenced for the sake of the university's athletic success." A classic example occurred in 1983, when University of Maryland basketball coach Lefty Driesell telephoned a coed in an attempt to have her drop an accusation of sexual misconduct against one of his players. Driesell's action...
...only was it a chance for the Crimson team to redeem their near-perfect record before the Cincinnati defeat--aside from the championship, they had won every major race this year--but it was also an opportunity to redress past greivances...
...pundits view it with the utmost gravity; they can, of course, draw on abundant evidence from the past to justify their alarm. It is not for me to quarrel with their pronouncements, but what they fail to see is the ludicrous side of German events. I should like to redress the balance. Granted that the opening of the Berlin Wall was a moment of high drama, but the consequences turned into low comedy almost overnight...