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...outshone by Hollywood's Sharon Stone, just recovered from a brain hemorrhage and still the paparazzi's favorite playmate. Devdas, a three-hour romantic phantasmagoria, got little indulgence from the international critics. Though they sat obediently through dozens of mopey minimalist movies, and one with a brutal nine-minute rape scene, they had a low threshold of pain for a pretty film with pretty people singing of love and loss; exactly one critic (this one) was there at the end. As for Chihwaseon, one insider announced a few hours before the awards ceremony that the jury had decided to give...
Zafran Bibi's case is especially complex. Her husband Naimat Khan, who until last year was in jail on a murder charge, claims that his own father forced Zafran Bibi to make the rape accusation against a man with whom the father was feuding. Later she changed her story and accused her brother-in-law, who was never charged. Khan says his wife actually became pregnant after a conjugal visit to him in jail. "It will be justice if my wife is handed back to me," says Khan...
Levit-Shore said the committee’s recommendations will not be legitimate unless its members do not consult with local organizations like the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center and Jane...
...policy the Ad Board will no longer adjudicate claims of misconduct brought by one student against another unless there is independent corroborating evidence to support the claim. As a result, the board will drastically limit the number of so-called “he-said-she-said” rape and sexual assault cases that it hears...
This is not to say that policy is inconsequential; students know that to be untrue. Indeed this is why they continue to rally for reform—for equitable social spaces, for diversity of academic offerings and for greater funding for rape education and prevention. But it is to say that if and when those changes are made, they will not themselves make Harvard a better place. That will require the continued vigilance of students who challenge themselves to rise above the comfortable systems of prejudice and inequality to which we are all accustomed...