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...work, it's an ex-husband using your career to try to take the kids away. Mothers with high-powered jobs like Marcia Clark, the prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson case, may have the most to worry about. In a flurry of recent custody battles, women who don't conform to the Donna Reed notion of motherhood have lost custody to men who slightly exceed Homer Simpson's idea of fatherhood...
Anti-smoking zeal influences persons to ignore evidence that does not support the anti-smoking cause. This zeal is a threat to personal freedom and produces the desire to penalize those who do not conform. Outlawing restaurants and their patrons the liberty to set their own policy as to smoking is wrong. Stephen Helfer Harvard Law Library International Legal Studies
...applied to Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 for recognition as a student group called Harvard Christians in Action (HCIA), its resume lacked an essential element--the approval of the United Ministry. Because religious groups are separated from other student organizations, they are required to conform to the guidelines established by the chaplains in the basement of Memorial Church...
...Ministry now holds, a monopoly on religion at Harvard. It should not, not only because its chaplains are not omniscient, but also because individual liberty is truly stifled by such control. If Harvard really believed in freedom of religion on campus, it should recognize all religious groups that conform to the guidelines for every other student group. The United Ministry's hypocrisy with regard to proselytizing makes it unfit to determine campus religious policy...
...nine editorial standards to which Peninsula asked The Salient to conform included provisions that called for the end of welfare programs, peer counseling programs at Harvard and affirmative action...