Word: harmful
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...interested in precedents. Surely, he concludes, morality swings both ways here. What is moral for the group cannot always be moral for the individual, or there would be no individuality, no exceptions, even if the exceptions only prove the rule. Let the people have their rules. What harm would it do history to relieve Emily's pain? A little harm, perhaps, no more than that...
...what you can," said former CIA Director Richard Helms, adding "Getting caught is the sin." Most observers doubt that Pollard passed along information of great importance, since Israel is already privy to most American secrets. "Pollard should be punished for his disloyalty," said one former officer, "not for the harm he caused to U.S. interests...
...differences in their personalities and ways of life. As they egg each other on to battle, they also come to know and trust each other. Hence Rappaport is less a problem drama than a kind of love story. Little depicts a man who has survived by staying out of harm's way. Knowing that he is in danger of being pensioned off from his job as an apartment-house superintendent, he switches to the night shift and ducks from the tenant committee. Hirsch portrays an incendiary old socialist, a meddlesome lover of confrontation politics and a compulsive impersonator of whoever...
...mentioned for an Oscar nomination--it would be her eighth--and since she is doing enough acting to fill at least that many pictures right here, she may get it. That her highly theatrical style has almost nothing to do with the craft of movie acting will probably not harm her cause: academy members traditionally like to see what they are voting for. The irony is that it is still not enough to fill out Foote's essentially empty drama. --By Richard Schickel
...there shouldn't be a course at West Point that allows young cadets to question or challenge authority. Is it ever a mistake to go to war? There are philosophical differences between disloyalty and healthy inquiry. We need to examine all the options before we send our troops into harm's way. Jon Price Pottstown, Pennsylvania...