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Where The Crimson went astray, however, was in its assertion that the Title IX claim now pending before the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is “questionable.” As defined by OCR, Title IX forbids sexual harassment in education—and characterizes the most severe form as sexual assault. To say that sexual assault is not sexual harassment is to believe that the use of words to harass and intimidate women on campus violates civil rights laws, but the use of physical or sexual violence to bring about...
...strong, vibrant and self-assured nation, and while they look up to America in many ways, they worry at the same time. Like aging mothers, t hey wonder if their most promising son, now grown up and on his own, is poised to run astray...
Although the jury convicted the entire firm, it focused the blame on a single person, Andersen's Chicago-based lawyer Nancy Temple, who, according to the legalese, played the "corrupt persuader" who led others astray. Knowing the Securities and Exchange Commission was starting to scrutinize Enron's books, Temple told David Duncan, who supervised the account, to remove her name from a file memo that disagreed with Enron's characterization of a $1 billion loss as "non-recurring." Said prosecutor Andrew Weissman: "This is a perfect example of Arthur Andersen sanitizing the record so the SEC would have less information...
...caution their girls against using incendiary language, which is a huge temptation with IM-ing; the word slut is the current favorite pejorative. Girls who know exactly what the rules are will get that "my mom is going to kill me" feeling in their gut when they're going astray. "A dollop of fear from Mom goes a long way, even with a queen bee," Wiseman says, showing that even high school royalty has to answer...
Unsavory characters as they are, the warlords have often served U.S. interests. But they are a slippery bunch. From the American perspective, the warlords fought bravely against the Soviets from 1979 to 1989 but then went astray following the Soviet defeat. From the American perspective, the warlords fought bravely against the Taliban, but now that the Taliban has been ostensibly defeated, it is unlikely that the warlords will turn in their tanks and rocket launchers for desk jobs...