Word: harmful
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...shift to the right, Benjamin Netanyahu will rise to power. The only real hawk in the election, Netanyahu promises to be harsh on terrorism—he will behave like a bull in a china shop. Wandering between the shelves with good intentions and no real desire to cause harm, he will shatter the little china figures into pieces and lead us to disaster. Israel will pay the price for panicking; as during Netanyahu’s previous term in office, buses will be blowing up in the center of Tel Aviv. Four years of sleepless nights are guaranteed...
...profit schools in the online school industry raises questions about the fairness of the government subsidizing students attending these schools. But the government should not refrain from funding students at online schools just because those schools happen to be for-profit institutions. Such a move would cause unjustifiable harm to students on federal aid and would lead to a large decrease in online options for their students. While there are concerns about the quality of online education, we can envision appropriate mechanisms, in the form of accreditation agencies, that could mitigate this problem. Moreover, the chance to open up postsecondary...
...Most polls show that between 70 and 80% of the public support access to safe and legal abortion in at least the case of rape and incest,? says Kate Looby, the state director of Planned Parenthood. Indeed, some abortion foes worried that the bill could do more harm than good, galvanizing abortion rights groups, alienating voters whose views are more mixed, and even prompting the Supreme Court to throw out the law, and fortify Roe in the process...
...gender-based discrimination is largely past, even when learning of studies that unequivocally reveal its persistence. It seems that the tendency to believe in a fair world is a powerful one, with the ability to perceive discrimination coming only slowly after a person has experienced enough prejudice to cause harm or impede success. This may help explain why so many highly successful people, like Summers, are not sensitive to the tremendous obstacle that prejudice still poses for women. So what lessons have we learned in the aftermath of Summers’ comments? First, speech that categorizes people based on race...
...wish President Summers had given his friends some time to work to dispel the cloud of caricature and misrepresentation, but it seems that the Harvard Corporation, despite its admirable and proper defense of Summers against his detractors, may have concluded that even a fair fight would do us more harm than a capitulation. And for all I know Summers, while caring deeply for our community and wanting to continue to serve it, also decided that he’d been battered enough: that is fair. Whitman’s heartbreaking American dirge, from which this jeremiad draws its title, will...