Word: violent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assailant nearly raped a Radcliffe student in Kirkland House Saturday night. Stephen S. J. Hall, vice president for administration and chairman of the Committee to Study Violent Crimes at Harvard, said yesterday he is angry because of the failure of the Cambridge Police to inform him of the attack...
...said the meeting of the Committee to Study Violent Crimes will concentrate on four points...
...payments, Mrs. Hemenway died of pneumonia, which had been complicated by her paralysis. Her husband will receive at least $19,000 to cover her hospital bills and other costs, but her larger legacy is Washington's law, which went into effect this summer and will aid victims of violent crime. Since California began the trend in 1965, 12 more states have enacted similar statutes, and Congress is now considering a federal crime-victims' compensation bill...
That practice could have an important side effect-helping to catch and prosecute violent criminals. "The act was designed to assist those persons most suspicious of the law-enforcement process," says Chicago's Wexler. "It may be worth a thousand Officer Friendlies." Indeed, compensation in some states depends on the victims' complete cooperation with police and prosecutors. Thus the growing use of compensation laws will provide financial incentives to offset the reluctance of victims to become complainants and witnesses in the long, frustrating judicial process...
...Heroin," and "Rock and Roll" from his days with The Velvet Underground. Reed's vocals, which were even more Dylanesque than usual, were accompanied by queenly dancing, spasmodic convulsions, and hesitant twirlings of the microphone. Highlighting his stage show was the random interjection of obscenities often followed by the violent felling of the microphone stand, which actually constituted one of the lighter sides of the concert. Whenever the mike stand came crashing to the ground, an obedient roadie would diligently high-tail it across the stage in order to reset it, in perfect likeness to a ballboy during a championship...