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The restricted reporting process enables the victim to get themselves together, understand the proce...
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The victim also couldn't request a transfer. And if they had to work with the alleged perpetrator, t...
DEBORAH DRUCKER
With restricted reporting, the victim would contact myself, a victim advocate, chaplain or health ca...
DEBORAH DRUCKER
People can take a look and see all the regular activities that are always taking place.
CRAIG DRUCKER
We have a very large membership already. We're expecting a very big turnout.
CRAIG DRUCKER
It's extremely, extremely exciting to finally do something as important as Healthy Kids Day at our t...
CRAIG DRUCKER
One attempt to reconcile the Gnostic doctrine [of the unreality of evilness] of matter with the apos...
F. F. BRUCE
Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877 The truth of Christ's supremacy over al...
F. F. BRUCE
The evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writi...
F. F. BRUCE
Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bi...
F. F. BRUCE
Art must take reality by surprise.
F. SAGAN
Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you had aimed ...
F. HAWES
There is no more beautiful life than that of a student.
F. ALBRECHT
The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
F. SAGAN
To be human is to be imperfect. To be perfect is to be divine. To be divine is to ascend through dea...
CHARLES F
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter
F. SAGAN
Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you.
F. JOHNSON
Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, bu...
F. SAGAN
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
F. WIKZEK