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...total breakdown in leadership than Rwanda. In 1994, Rwanda suffered a tragedy unimaginable in both scope and brutality. It was the fastest genocide in recorded history. An estimated 800,000 to one million innocent civilians were killed in a span of one hundred days, and hundreds of thousands fell victim to displacement and starvation in the following weeks and months. The international community’s failure to act, in spite of the fact that the whole world was aware of the atrocities taking place, is one of the most shameful facts of the twentieth century. Yet, we have once...
...Sunday, according to Cambridge Police Department spokesman Frank T. Pasquarello. The offender approached the student at the intersection of Mill and Plympton Streets as she was walking back to her dorm, according to Pasquarello. The offender then opened his coat and flashed her as she turned around. The victim immediately walked away from the offender, said Steven G. Catalano, Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) public information officer. Once back on campus, she called the police. The victim was not physically hurt, and the offender never spoke during the incident, according to a community advisory from HUPD. The advisory described...
...Chair Brittany J. Walker-Meade ’10. The event hosted approximately 175 undegraduates, alumni, and members of the greater Boston community, according to Sarah Lockridge-Steckel ’09, president of BSA. Union’s closing address focused on her experience as a teenage rape victim. In her speech, Union stressed the importance of using personal fortune to help others. She said that her celebrity status has enabled her to make an impact on the fight against sex crimes. Many audience members said that Union’s most thought-provoking statement came when she encouraged...
...classified as a hate crime for which the perpetrator—who is being tried as an adult—faces up to 52 years in jail. Despite the heinousness of this crime, the killer seems to have suffered at the hands of American cultural attitudes, just as his victim did. This incident was an eloquently horrible manifestation of some of the effects of latent homophobia in the United States. Simply put, 14-year-olds do not take it upon themselves to kill homosexuals without a considerable amount of ideological influence, be it from family, friends, or the media...
...said Muse. “Then I heard a loud crash, and the door slammed.” When Muse walked out of her bedroom into the common room, she said that she noticed that her roommate’s television and laptop were missing. The victim, who declined to comment on the incident, was not present at the time of the robbery, which occurred on the third floor. According to the HUPD report, “the offender is described as a Hispanic male in his 30s, 5’11” in height, weighing approximately 190 pounds...