Word: habitant
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...evil grips America, a life-sapping, drug-related habit. It beclouds reason and corrodes the spirit. It undermines authority and nourishes a low-minded culture of winks and smirks. It's the habit of drug prohibition, and it's quietly siphoning off the resources that might be better used for drug treatment or prevention. Numerous authorities have tried to warn us, including most recently the Surgeon General, but she got brushed off like a piece of lint. After all, drug prohibition is right up there with heroin and nicotine among the habits that are hell to kick...
...kick the prohibition habit? Is it high-minded puritanism that holds us back, or political cowardice? Or maybe it's time to admit that we cling to prohibition for the same reason we cling to so many other self- destructive habits: because we like the way they make us feel. Prohibition, for example, tends to make its advocates feel powerfully righteous, and militant righteousness has effects not unlike some demon mix of liquor and amphetamines: the eyes bulge, the veins distend, the voice begins to bray...
Although the staff acknowledges that participation is the primary goal of the Gift, it fails to recognize that participation whether a $10 gift or a larger sum) is crucial so that the soon-to-be alumni get in the habit of giving money for years to come--when they have more money to give...
Gift Co-chair A. Jabbar Abdi 94 comments that the point of the Gift is not so much to raise a lot of money as to get people in the habit of giving to the College funded on donations, whether is was John Harvard or Anne Radcliffe," Abdi says. give, we're saying this is why they should give...
...this really troubled me. If the goal of the exercise is to encourage the habit of giving, why ask different people to give different amounts? To encourage giving proportional to one's income, was the answer co-chair A. Jabbar Abdi '94 gave The Crimson in a recent interview...