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...bright spot is that women have finally brought sexual violence to the front of our own consciousness. It is a triumph of modern feminism that an immense and very angry conversation is taking place among women nationwide. Society has been "sensitized": we have rape hot lines and rape shield laws, battered-women's shelters and battered-women's-syndrome legal defenses. Just how much real change is occurring, however, is open to question. Two years after the Washington police department directed officers to make arrests in domestic-violence cases, local women's groups found that the policy was rarely enforced...
Since the College prohibits individuals from operating companies out of their dorm rooms, individual students who wish to sell something using the Harvard name or shield for their own profit have two options. They can rent an off-campus location, incorporate their company and obtain a list of authorized manufacturers from the Office for Patents, Copyrights and Licensing, or they can work through Harvard Student Agencies, who will likewise obtain the list from the Office for Patents, Copyrights and Licensing...
...expensive item that the defense-spending bill does not include is Operation Desert Shield. The buildup was funded through Oct. 1 with a special $2 billion appropriation. The Pentagon estimates it could cost as much as $15 billion over the next 12 months. Congress refused to provide that much, since it considers the sum inflated. The lawmakers are also waiting to see whether the Saudis, who have pledged $6 billion, and European allies will share the burden...
When halftime descended on Memorial Field, the new order seemed to have won the day. Hordes of freshmen sporting green Dartmouth '94 shirts sat politely in their seats, waiting for the Harvard band to complete its rendition of "10,000 Men of Harvard." The Crimson band stepped into its shield formation around its white "VE," "RI" and "TAS" sheets...
With the Desert Shield coalition so subject to upheaval, patience in the gulf waiting game is wearing thin. In a BBC interview last week, British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd said the anti-Saddam forces would need to decide "in a matter of weeks" whether the economic sanctions against Iraq were sufficient or whether to prepare to go to war to liberate Kuwait...