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There is no costless solution to the Persian Gulf crisis; our country will pay with lives and money. The question is whether our leaders will seek to minimize the loss of life--American or otherwise--by searching out non-military solutions. Can President Bush honestly tell the American people he has fairly considered every non-war alternative...
Passing a destitute person on the street is disturbing and sometimes frightening. But our fear and discomfort is nothing compared to that of the destitute person. Treating homeless people with the basic dignity that all humans deserve is costless to us, and priceless to them...
...going to find the resources to reinvigorate this country, we're going to have to make some real choices that are not costless choices. First of all, Medicare is a program that when L.B.J. announced it, he thought was going to cost $500 million, and it's heading rapidly toward $100 billion. Thirty percent of that money, which is a mammoth sum, goes to the last year of life...
...students have the capacity to assess ourselves for an organization we support? People who feel the term bill is a sacred object which should be kept inaccesible to those who pay it may disagree. But a failure to respond to the expressed preference of the majority, when it is costless to the university and non-binding, is an arrogant denial of students' rights. Mary E. Babic '81 Timothy G. Massad...
...THIRD irony--the last one we shall pause to count--the major objections to a reform of financial policy are likely to be more political than economic. Even if they concede that some forms of moral control over investments would be costless, university administrators are prone to argue that the political procedures by which decisions could be reached on individual stocks would in themselves corrode the "freedom" of the academy. Harvard's administrators are probably representative of corporate bureaucrats in fearing the disclosures of now confidential information and the presumption of legitimization of institutional expressions of will which would necessarily...