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...terrible act that inflicts trauma on its victims, even in non-violent situations. However, we live in a democracy where criminals do not forfeit their human rights; stolen goods should not be repaid with death, as the punishment does not fit the crime. Those who experience felony often feel threatened??whether during a burglary or a street robbery—but it’s unacceptable for citizens to immediately react with violence. Such mentality leads to a Wild West attitude, when the general public has more freedom to shoot and kill than the trained police...

Author: By Olivia M. Goldhill | Title: Stolen Lives | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

...Friends of the World Food Program, a United Nations humanitarian organization that combats hunger, praised the students in the audience for demonstrating their interest in global health. Leach commended the strides the United States has made in assisting impoverished nations, but warned that “progress is being threatened?? by a lack of communication in Congress. Robert Paarlberg, a political science professor at Wellesley and an associate at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, drew a distinction between the emergency aid that the United States effectively distributes on a periodic basis versus the sustained...

Author: By Roxanne J. Fequiere, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Experts Debate Solutions for Hunger | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

Despite these challenges, the German authorities kept a watchful eye on the three would-be bombers, allowing the evidence to mount while ensuring that the public was never threatened??even secretly swapping concentrated hydrogen peroxide with a much more dilute mixture...

Author: By Jonathan B. Steinman | Title: Insecurity | 9/18/2007 | See Source »

...Velissaris wrote in a statement yesterday that he “in no way physically threatened?? Garvey...

Author: By William C. Marra, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ousted Driver Sues Harvard | 5/10/2006 | See Source »

...former faculty member and the current professor both said that a group of department chairs met privately with Altshuler last week. According to the former faculty member, who spoke with someone present at the session, Altshuler was “threatened?? with a vote of no confidence at an upcoming faculty meeting...

Author: By Javier C. Hernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Design School Chief Draws Fire | 3/3/2006 | See Source »

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