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...training should be able to resolve more cases, but at least it will provide sexual assault victims with their right to an investigation. Such investigations often lead to evidence or testimony that was not available at the outset, and they send the message to potential rapists that they cannot commit violent crimes and then go back to life as usual...
...publication of "Nothing Is Impossible: Reflections on a New Life" (Random House; September). His new book looks back at the seven years since his paralyzing accident. He describes the book as edgier than his earlier book, "Still Me," with more complicated topics. One of them is his desire to commit suicide after his accident, which abated only after his wife proved her continuing love...
...businesses, including Jakarta department stores, Bali resorts and massive land holdings nationwide, worth an estimated $3 billion?remains intact. And most importantly, say critics, the military has paid little more than lip service to improving its human rights record. In conflict zones like Aceh, its troops continue to commit atrocities at a rate humanitarian groups can barely track...
...military says that atrocities are an exception, not the rule. "If I have a hundred soldiers in the field, two or three might commit abuses," says army spokesman Brigadier General Ratyono. "It's common. It's normal. But there is never any instruction to commit them." This distinction?let's call it the "few bad apples" defense?is depressingly familiar to rights activists. "Abuses by the military are too widespread for it to be just a question of individuals," says Aris Santoso, a military analyst with a Jakarta think tank. "The institution itself must take the blame." Four middle-ranking...
...This change sends the message to students that Harvard will not protect them should they become victims of sexual assault and sends the message to perpetrators of sexual assault that they can commit assault freely without needing to worry about being punished,” stated the e-mail from CASV...