Word: harm
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...prompting fears of Big Brother are sending out the wrong message--especially to those who fear computers because they do not understand the technology [NATION, Aug. 25]. Access to personal information isn't always a terrible thing. As with fire, drugs or firearms, computerized access to personal information causes harm only if placed in the wrong hands. Computer technology has taken us a long way, mostly with great results and enormous potential. It's not the technology we should fear but the people who take our private information and use it in harmful ways. PETER GORMAN Portsmouth...
...inability to keep information about ourselves private is far less insidious than our inability to protect our bodies and property from harm. A burglar entering our home violates our physical privacy in a far more serious way than someone who uses the Internet to steal from us. Most of us would rather receive junk mail than deal with door-to-door salespeople. Basically, the hoodlums have changed the tools of their trade. PAWAN K. BHARTIA Mitchellville...
...This just goes on and on, because some student leaders still refuse to work with College administrators who have done their best to be cooperative," Skocpol wrote. "The course of perpetual haggling and political uncertainty has been extremely harmful to PBHA, and the longer the mess continues, the more harm will be done...
...This just goes on and on, because some student leaders still refuse to work with College administrators who have done their best to be cooperative, " Skocpol wrote. "The course of perpetual haggling and political uncertainty has been extremely harmful to PBHA, and the longer the mess continues, the more harm will be done...
...answer is that the nature of police misconduct, if not the volume, has changed. In the past, brutality frequently took the form of a cop retaliating against someone trying to harm him. Often it went unnoted. Today there is frequently an element of police gangsterism. Small groups of police officers share a fermenting contempt for the people they encounter. Rogue cops band together and cover one another's crimes. When all this unravels in public, it seems as if entire cadres are corrupt...