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...recent past, Harvard has tended to err on the side of allowing more, rather than less, speech. While nominally restricting paper posters to those approved by duly constituted student groups, the University has no such restrictions on flags and banners. In fact, Holworthy East has long been used by student groups to post banners promoting concerts, fundraisers and formals...
...with the court's precarious pro-choice majority and the lives of millions hanging in the balance, the Senate must dare to err on the side of caution. It can and should reject Souter and other any nominee who will not assure them in unambiguous language that he or she will uphold the right to abortion against all encroachments. Some things are worth fighting...
People will continue to err when predicting the future if only because of the human tendency to fit new events into familiar categories. In a celebrated 1950s experiment, psychologist Jerome Bruner showed that ordinary people would "see" a red ace of spades as a regular black one if it was salted into an otherwise normal deck. The Smithsonian exhibit demonstrates that inventors are fooled in the same...
...some authors err even more greatly: They believe that Judaism the religion is fundamentally incompatible with the expression of political and military power...
...state must decide. And in Cruzan's case, the court concluded, the state's interest in preserving life was not offset by any clear or convincing evidence of Nancy Cruzan's own wishes or by any demonstration that the feeding tube was "heroically invasive" or burdensome. "We choose to err on the side of life," declared the court...