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...northern Wisconsin lakes. Sport fishermen, who are required to use less efficient fishing rods and are limited to three to five fish a day, claim that the Chippewa are harming tourism by depleting the walleye population. "It's 1% of the population exercising their rights to the detriment of 99%," charges Dean Crist, leader of a protest group...
...more than $30 million. The move brought cries of foul from other colleges. The increased money and TV exposure, they complained, will give Notre Dame even more of an advantage in national recruiting and will encourage other strong teams to pursue a go-it-alone policy, to the detriment of all college sports...
...reporter hates to lose a story, especially at the behest of a Communist diplomat who makes house calls. But journalists also have to be careful about a version of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle in physics: sometimes by observing -- and reporting -- a phenomenon, we alter it, perhaps to the detriment of people who have cooperated with us. If, as Lukanov feared, publishing a profile of him were to end a career that was supposedly so promising, then not only would I have burned my source but I would also have misinformed my readers. So I swallowed hard and sent a cable...
...really no great loss. Not only is harassment of minorities a detriment rather than an addition to the "market-place of ideas," it is hardly an abberration to restrict freedom of speech--both on the campus...
...silence of other Harvard students, especially the campus Left, is equally surprising. Perhaps Harvard students are content to let their own children benefit from an unjust policy to the detriment of others. More likely, students, faculty and administrators take legacy policy as a given, a part of Harvard tradition as unshakeable as the statue in front of University Hall...