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...action follows gut-wrenching hearings last month filled with stories of teen suicides. The agency took pains last week to say there are no studies showing that antidepressants actually cause people to take their lives, but decided to err on the side of caution. Given the risks involved, that's probably not a bad idea. --With reporting by Saundra Young/Washington...
Demonstrations for curricular change and a Living Wage haven’t always been popular. But strike students where their hearts—err, that is, stomachs—are, and they don’t just get mad. They get organized. Food politics have graduated to a whole new level here at Harvard, where students upset with unruly frozen yogurt machines and premature grille closures are demanding more from their dining halls...
...killed and treated with contempt by the judges and prosecutors" of Hamburg during the Third Reich. It is a reminder that the law can destroy as well as protect, and that even in the age of terror, the best defense for democracies may be in having the confidence to err on the side of the individual as they struggle to balance threats to national security against the rights of defendants...
...narrow the review in the next several months, it is imperative that the council start soon. They should proactively piece together a vision for undergraduate education that makes student concerns a priority—instead of allowing Harvard to remain an impersonal research institution which has a tendency to err on the side of administrative convenience to the detriment of educational benefit...
...Ramer says that tutors should “err on the side of prying” in order to make sure students are getting help for their problems...