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Speaking generally about campus rape, Secretary of the Faculty John B. Fox Jr. '59, who chaired the Ad Board in the 1970's as dean of the College, revealed an alarmingly outmoded attitude toward rape which we hope is not shared by other administrators. Referring to all male undergraduates involved in such allegations, he held open the possibility that, "The young man made an error, but it wasn't a calculated error," and that "this is a perfectly decent young man, and he should graduate some day." Anyone who attacks another human being and forces them to have sex against...
...trend toward comprehensive component systems had been gathering steam for decades, but it was the recession of the early 1990s that got things boiling, especially in Europe. With profit margins pushed beyond the agony point, companies began letting their suppliers do more of the engineering and preassembly of integrated systems in increasingly complex cars. Air-bag makers like Sweden's Autoliv, for example, started buying up or forging partnerships with companies that make sensors, steering wheels and other related products and offering car companies complete, preassembled safety systems...
There was also, I regret to say, a widespread willingness to exploit seriously ill patients, feeble-minded children and all manner of unfortunates without their consent for purposes the investigators seemed worthy--even if you deduct for the inevitable impulse toward self-aggrandizement that accompanies most creative work. No one, in fact, had yet heard of the idea of informed consent and as far as I can tell everyone thought he was doing something of value in these studies...
Another example: Liebman happily raved about how great it is to find money. "I found $20. It was just sitting there." She looked toward the ground. "In the tip jar at Starbucks...
...Harvard is not taking a pro-active, result-oriented philosophy [toward diversity goals]," Gutierrez, the Raza president, said...