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...Associated Press has not disclosed the woman's name. The news agency's policy is to refrain from identifying rape victims, except in extraordinary circumstances...
...however, things are looking grim. Saddam Hussein's forces have crushed most of the Shi'ite and Kurdish bellions with brutal force (including, of course, chemical weapons, at the cost of thousands of lives). Once solidly restored to his former control, it would be naive to expect Saddam to refrain from purchasing arms, and more than naive to think it impossible because of some "embargo" which everyone knows won't last...
...months in 1988, the Seoul government urged South Koreans to refrain from shouldering their way through crowds, spitting in public and even eating dogs. But after the nation finished playing host to the summer Olympics, the rigorous campaign slacked off, and government officials have noticed that many citizens went back to their old antisocial ways. To combat the problem, a new month-long crackdown has been launched against expectorating, smoking in restricted areas, urinating in public and "behaving obnoxiously while intoxicated." On the first day of the program, police officials announced that exactly 57,294 people had been reprimanded nationwide...
...these reasons that we respectfully request the Undergraduate Council to refrain from taking a position in the Confederate flag debate. Taking a position on either side of the issue is and should be incompatible with the mission of the Undergraduate Council. It will only serve as a catharsis for those who feel the need to assert their own self-righteousness...
...also request that this letter be read not as an attempt to either defend or attack the hanging of the Confederate flags; the only concern we are addressing in this letter is the desire which many students have: that the Undergraduate Council refrain from any and all political issues and devote its resources to its only mission--service to students. Harry James Wilson '93 David M. Shull '94 Kristen L. Silverberg '92 James L. Doak '94 Harvard Republican Club