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...assume that [steroids] are a very bad thing to take. I have no doubt that they are not worse than cigarettes. But I would never say to the clubs as an individual who represents the interests of players, 'Gee, I guess by not allowing baseball to suspend and fine players for smoking cigarettes, I am not protecting their health...
...Real humanity takes place in the practice of everyday life, in the fine textures of workaday relationships. It is awfully difficult. Service can’t be used to balance off an imagined moral ledger sheet or to cancel out privileges we feel bad about. Instead, we should try to avoid accumulating too much vulgar privilege in the first place—a quantity that isn’t measured in crude indexes like money or education or employment, but in the degree to which our social behavior trends either toward humility or toward hierarchism...
...merit a full pardon, it's fine to break out the bubbly. But if you drink too much champagne and start a barroom brawl? Indulgence revoked, and you're back to square one. How's that for an incentive to keep doing good works...
Starting line-ups, after a fine performance of the national anthem by the Penn band: Harvard- Harris, Wright, Lin, Housman, Pusar. Penn- Eggleston, Lewis, Rosen, Bernardini, Gaines...
...everyone is devastated by the budget's fine print. It includes tax breaks for large corporations, film companies that keep production in-state, buyers of new homes and small businesses that hire new employees. "The state was about to go over a cliff," says Allan Zaremberg, president and chief executive officer of the California Chamber of Commerce. "No tax in a recession is a good tax. But I think the legislature and the governor went out of way to spread taxes by as many Californians and businesses as possible so the impact would not hurt any one industry...