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...said that halfway houses for domestic offenders can serve to protect victims while keeping the offenders, who often provide financial support to victims, in the workplace. Eric P. Lesser ’07, the president of the Dems, said that Barrios’ focus on domestic violence was vital. “In the rhetoric you hear, there is attention on glitzy and sexy crime issues and no attention is paid to domestic violence,” Lesser said. Barrios also said that technology such as GPS tracking—which can confirm whether sex offenders are in school zones...
Yesterday’s NCAA Northeast Regional qualifiers for the championships in Texas was no different, with the Crimson qualifying 11 fencers out of a possible 12—vital because the championships are based on an aggregate score of all fencers from a school...
...aware of the gaps in their offerings (as in the example of the philosophy department). But we feel that many departments could benefit from additional feedback from College administrators, a small handful of informed faculty from other departments, and, in particular, from Harvard undergraduates. An institutionalized feedback mechanism is vital if the College is to succeed in providing its students with more complete exposure to a particular field. We do not believe that students should have anywhere near full control over a department’s decisions of which courses to teach; rather, when there is consistent and reasonable student...
...detainees mount legal challenges to their incarceration, TIME is making the record of al-Qahtani's treatment available to the public in its entirety (except for some names which have been redacted) for the first time. Back in June 2005, the Pentagon insisted that al-Qahtani had provided vital intelligence, focusing on key al-Qaeda leaders and some 30 fellow prisoners at Guantanamo whom he identified as Osama bin Laden's bodyguards...
While abroad, she gained insights that became vital to her future work through things as simple as joining a group of dancers in her village. She vividly remembers the first moment of dancing with them: “I did not understand from the outside what I did from the inside of the dance. I could stand on the outskirts, watching and analyzing, but putting my body in that movement made me think about it from an entirely different angle...