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...just too painful. Space and a tender constitution forbid us to itemize the blandishments of all those morality movies (Flipper, May 17; Alaska, July 14; Kazaam, July 17; The Adventures of Pinocchio, July 26; The Spitfire Grill, August 23, et al.) about misunderstood kids with Dondi eyes and platinum hearts who learn The True Meaning of Friendship from a MENSA-level dolphin, a genie played by Shaquille O'Neal, an adorable polar bear or Martin Landau as Geppetto. For two other childlike films, adults (and adult-like children) may have a hope...
...students should not have been dealing drugs because "students are not permitted to use University facilities for private enterprise." The purpose of this rule, as Kaufman acknowledges, is to preserve the residential nature of the community. It does not forbid all exchanges of money in a student's residence (students are allowed to sell their TVs and futons). Whether this rule should apply depends on whether their drug dealing was of a scale that was disruptive, or if they were selling to only a close circle of friends and not for profit. And since their arrest came only after weeks...
...Foxwoods, in Ledyard, Conn., is the most profitable casino in the world. Private gambling is against Connecticut state law. Federal law, however, allows Indian reservations to do anything permitted by the state or national government. Since the state of Connecticut had already instituted a state lottery, it could not forbid the establishment of Foxwoods...
There are two basic approaches to the Yuletide dilemma. One is to forbid all public religious symbols. In any culture, one religion is inevitably dominant, and having religious displays will only lead to exclusion and possibly oppression by that faith. Therefore, some argue, we must banish religion to the privacy of religious institutions and the home...
...budget needs to be balanced which clearly it does, then everyone must share the pain--even, God forbid college students. This is especially true at Harvard, where graduates often earn large incomes; it's hard to claim that we need subsidies paid for by the tax dollars of blue-collar workers. Sean Peirce...