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Dates: during 2000-2009
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A clever, similar, but currently unfulfilling argument used to justify high taxes on cigarettes is that smokers will have greater incentive to quit if their habit costs them more money, and since they’ll be better off cigarette-free in the long run, a tax discouraging smoking actually...

Author: By Andrew P. Winerman, | Title: Paying the Piper for the Pipe | 12/16/2002 | See Source »

Employing anti-plagiarism programs will probably catch a few cheaters. It might even act as a deterrent to copying and encourage original work. But these positive results will certainly be outweighed by the tense, adversarial relationship this will undoubtedly create between professors and students. Once a few bad apples get...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Cut And Paste, Catch Cheaters | 12/10/2002 | See Source »

Your reporting on the midterm elections was perhaps an unwitting testament to how pathetic the U.S. political system has become. What a waste of resources! If our political parties, elected officials and their various minions would devote their time, energy and money to solving the country's problems instead of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 9, 2002 | 12/9/2002 | See Source »

Smith said that voting to devote the same percentage of the budget to student groups actually constituted a decrease in student group funding, and that the only way not to have voted to decrease student group funding would actually have been to increase the percentage of the total budget devoted...

Author: By Alexander J. Blenkinsopp, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Council Hopefuls Face Off in Debate | 12/9/2002 | See Source »

The resources currently expended on these inefficient security measures could be put to better use. Certain initiatives need funding even within the library system, including the proposal for an extension of Lamont’s hours. Streamlining security would not only save money but, most relevantly, it would make students?...

Author: By Erin M. Kane, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lockdown at the Library | 12/6/2002 | See Source »

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