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...idea: lose it all or win everything back. The lights flashing from his computer screen, the adrenaline, and the late hour made the whole enterprise seem like a video game—with dollars as the points system. How simple it seemed. And yet, how perilous: his entire bank account gone in the time it takes most people to get a good night’s sleep...
Harvard has accumulated so many followers partly because it operates over a dozen different Twitter accounts—including @HarvardSummer, @HarvardFASGreen, @harvard_uos (University Operations Services), @HUDSInfo, @HBSJobs, and of course @HarvardGenEd. The University's official Twitter account boasts 4,207 followers: only 22 percent of Harvard's total stalkers...
...Christie’s school district, the zero-tolerance policy is clear: Weapons are not allowed in school “regardless of possessor’s intent.” Although many have claimed that, in Christie’s case, intent should have been taken into account, the district’s injunction is an essential one in creating a secure school environment. When students bring knives or any other implements that can be used as weapons into school, they are engaging in inherently unsafe actions. Even if, as in Christie’s case, the weapon...
...Christie to reform school will likely achieve precisely the opposite effect desired, actually hindering his education by forcing him to miss 45 days of regular class instruction. Although violations of zero-tolerance policies should certainly be punished, the precise nature of the punishments applied needs to be discretionary to account for students’ intentions, personal situations, and, most importantly, educational needs or interests...
With the patients, their safety needs to be taken into account. If some workers are not going to get vaccinated, patients should be informed about this and be given the choice to be treated by a vaccinated caregiver. Or maybe there are less invasive options for non-vaccinated caregivers, such as facemasks and gowns, which may prevent the spread of viruses. In a health-care facility, the care of patients is tantamount and must be the primary focus of the workers...