Word: harmful
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...opportunity to venture beyond the dining hall experience. “It would be nice if kids who have packed schedules could eat outside the dining halls,” said Carey W. Hynes ’09. “I don’t see the harm in giving students both options.” But Olivia G. Volkoff ’09, a first-year transfer student from Columbia, who ate with a flexible points plan at her previous college, said she supported keeping Harvard’s unlimited meal plan. “Freshman year, everyone...
Once again, gay activists who claim to speak for us have gone too far. Every time they let the culture of victimhood infect and pervade their worldview, they lose a little credibility. When the real fights come along, when latter day Anita Bryants seek to impose real harm on gay men and women, gay rights activists will be impotent to act. No one will trust them, or care to listen to what they have...
...Afghanistan where the entire population is addicted to opium. Mothers in carpet weaving districts take opium to ease muscle aches earned from spending long days at the loom, and give it to their children to keep them quiet. Says Bayer: "There is no education, no awareness of the harm that opium causes. People here have been traumatized. If they can find something to relieve the pain, they will take...
...fucking rockets through the streets.” Perhaps comparing Tiananmen Square with the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is unfair. But a cult of personality does go a long way toward inspiring obedience and support in a nation. And if all else fails, threats of physical harm are generally successful. Harvard students know why Communism is attractive. “If you hold off, they kill you, right? I’d just go for it, get right on the bandwagon,” says Meares. Natalie D. Evans ’08 shared the experiences...
...Governing Boards may think they know these things, but it will do them no harm to hear them again. Our future is in the hands of six electors whose choice must be confirmed by the Board of Overseers. If we are to have confidence in a choice in which we have no vote, we must depend upon the Governing Boards to get it right. This means most especially that the Overseers must do more than apply their customary rubber stamp. They above all must remember that they have a moral duty to assay the intangible qualities essential to an effective...