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...list fails to take into account the unnecessary costs of resorting to abuse--specifically, the lost opportunity to uncover more secrets by developing a rich captor-captive relationship, the loss of a democracy's moral authority and the poisoning of any eventual legal proceeding, which, of course, would disallow evidence gained through torture...
...other respects, the pass/fail system would remain entirely the same. The College could still impose a limit of one pass/fail class a semester, and professors could still exercise their right to disallow pass/fail students in their classes. For those students who use the pass/fail option to avoid doing work—and we all know they exist—the ability to reverse their decision would only add to the incentive to strive for success. (Allowing the reverse, that is for students to change grades into Ps, would weaken the incentive for success...
...neighborhood” as it is expected that by 2009 “the city would have a population of no more than 275,000, down more than 40 percent from its pre-hurricane population of 465,000.” Considering those predictions, it is not unreasonable to disallow residents from resettling those areas that numerous independent parties have deemed most vulnerable or unlivable. In the spirit of saving millions of federal funds on regions that are particularly prone to flooding as well as preempting the logistical and emotional nightmare of future relocations, the government should forgo those expenditures...
...November, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruled in a 4-3 decision that it was unconstitutional to disallow same-sex marriages in the state...
...legal incidents thereof be conferred upon unmarried couples or groups.” The “legal incidents” of marriage that are offered by many states, counties, cities and employers are vital to the livelihoods of BGLT people. Retracting these rights would not only disallow the ability of BGLT people to take advantage of tax benefits and access to estates, but it would prohibit them as well from visiting their loved ones in hospitals as anything more than a friend...