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...late March, the Senate Education Committee released a significantly watered-down version of ACCRA. A similar version was overwhelmingly passed by the House last Wednesday as a part of this year's Higher Education Act. After a conference committee irons out details, the bill is expected to pass Congress with a veto-proof majority...
...university administrators, lobbyists, mental health counselors and police representatives contend that the full version of ACCRA could, if passed, make, victims more reluctant to report crimes on campus...
...violence that have long marked the culture they thought was their model. Donald S. Lopez Jr., a professor of Buddhist and Tibetan studies and author of an important new book, Prisoners of ShangriLa: Tibetan Buddhism and the West, says the fracas will help Americans realize they "have a bowdlerized version of Tibetan Buddhism." Editor Tworkov goes further. "This allows us as Westerners to ask, How do we bring this tradition into our society and our lives, and what is best left behind in Tibet or Japan? Every Buddhist culture has elements we'd rather not import. Those of us from...
Somehow, no one beyond the police discovered just how bad it looked. The cops called Soona, but Fualaau family lawyer Robert Huff says they spoke with her "for half a minute" before allowing Mary to tell Soona a G-rated version of the incident. "Mary's a great talker," Huff says, "and Soona calmed down." Soona then told the police it was O.K. for Vili to go home with Mary; for reasons that aren't clear, the police didn't press the issue. They never informed Mary's school, and they decided there wasn't enough evidence to file charges...
...season, which has included a brisk Li'l Abner and a triumphant version of the Gershwins' Strike Up the Band that deserves to go straight to Broadway, concludes this week with Williams and Charles S. Dutton in St. Louis Woman...