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...owner of the Harvard Square hair salon About Hair, charged with rape and running a prostitution ring out of his store, appeared in Cambridge District Court on Friday for a pre-trial hearing in a preface to a trial set to begin this summer. Judge George Sprague set a timeline for the trial at yesterday’s hearing, scheduling the discovery motions—the next date Purdy is due in court—for July 27, according to Middlesex District Attorney (D.A.) spokeswoman Emily LaGrassa. Duncan W. Purdy, 52, who is also charged with indecent assault and battery...
Duke University officials were slow to respond to the rape allegations against members of the lacrosse team because Durham police officials doubted the accuser and grossly underestimated the seriousness of the allegations, according to a report released on Monday by a special committee formed to examine the administration's role in the incident...
...Price of Democracy? You say that Bangladesh has been growing at 5% per year, and that that's wonderful [April 10]. Really? Any undergraduate student of economics can tell you that increased income is no measure of well-being. The acceptance of criminal behavior?murder, rape and arson?that has come with the acceptance of a confrontational two-party system means that well-being is lower today than it was under autocracy. That's not surprising: democratization and violence tend to go together. Indeed, the connection between democracy and violence is an ancient one: Thucydides and Plato were the first...
...modest crowd of around fifteen people gathered in the Winthrop Junior Common Room last night to discuss the implications of the alleged incident of rape at Duke University and to raise questions about how the Harvard community would have responded to a similar situation. The event addressed the recent criminal case in which members of the Duke lacrosse team were accused of raping a local African-American college student, who had been hired as a dancer for a party. Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (OSAPR) Director Susan B. Marine said Duke President Richard Broadhead should make public statements...
...local council in the Pakistani border state of Punjab ordered the gang rape of Mukhtar Mai in 2002 after her brother was seen walking with a girl from a rival tribe. After Mai spoke out, the government gave her $8,300 in compensation, which she used to found a school to educate young women in Pakistan. She has gained international acclaim largely due to columns penned by New York Times op-ed writer Nicholas D. Kristof ’81, whose readers have sent Mai over $130,000 through this past November.Kristof, a former Crimson editor, has written that...