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CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE is a time-honored and effective method of protest. However, when protesters cross the line between peaceful demonstration and forcible coercion, even when the crossing is not pre-meditated, they only serve as a detriment to their cause-and to the rights of the entire community...
Last week's currency-market gyrations demonstrated both the benefits and the detriment of a strong currency. The first-blush effect for Americans is good. A mighty dollar turns the world into a buyers' paradise for U.S. tourists. Americans appear to be signing up in record numbers for European vacation trips, to find antique bargains in London and enjoy three-star meals in Paris. Travel agencies report bookings are up more than 100% over last year. Says Jane Levin of Boston's Garber Travel: "Europe is going to sink into the ocean under the sheer weight of American tourists...
...tenants aren't buying it. They charge Harvard with offenses ranging from dishonestly and inconsiderateness to rushing senselessly after profits to the detriment of the community. City councilors who called the sales a circumvention of the law may well step in during the next month by changing the rent control rules, but the University would undoubtedly resist...
...McDonough had stuck to nostalgic personalities, they play might have succeeded as amusing fluff. But the two principles have to carry the weight of the dramatic message, to the detriment of their performances. Mark Cuddy's Petruchio has a reason to deliver his lines like a third-rate caffeine-crazed vaudevillian, Since that is what he is supposed to be. But Kirsten Giroux, who plays Katherina, is clearly a talented if traditional Shakespearean actress, which makes her the wrong person for his role. Her mugging, posting and self-consciously exaggerated delivery make no sense; her gestures and poses look like...
...There's a problem," said J.C. Sharp, deputy chief of information policy at the National Security Agency. "There is so much information out there on the air waves being picked up and used to the detriment of the United States...