Word: harmfulness
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...Ultimately, stirring up public passion could harm relations between countries that have much to gain from economic cooperation?as cooler heads in China, Japan and South Korea are eager to point out. "As Chinese, we should do our best to avoid creating the impression among the Japanese public that the new China is a rising and hostile country," says Shi Yinhong, a professor of international relations at Renmin University in Beijing. "What we say and do are very important in shaping the Japanese sense of their own safety in the international community." Says Akiko Fukushima, director of policy studies...
...there’s one thing that Miracle on 34th Street—and, come to think of it, the lukewarm reviews for Ross Douthat’s debut tome—have taught us, it is that nobody likes a stickler for the truth. There is no real harm, I suppose, in capitalizing on the myth of the supernaturally brilliant and accomplished Harvardian—so long as we don’t buy into it ourselves...
Beyond the program’s double standard for students and overzealous enforcement, OSS is a misguided initiative founded on an unfair characterization of the Harvard-Yale tailgate. It should be abandoned before it fulfills its promise of doing more harm than good...
...Hirsch’s scheme, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, and those of his ilk, can do the MFA no harm, and are likely to give it a new, fresher facade. This musical shift is another remodeling of sorts, a process not new to the museum by any means, but it is an expansion in an essentially new direction, and, as such, will carry with it broad new consequences that will help to shape this generation’s conception of ancient institutions of this sort. See you at the MFA show? Cool...
...ridding Harvard of a few more million dollars of questionable stock pale in comparison to the importance of the health of Harvard’s investments. Harvard has set a strong precedent for divesting from exceptionally bad companies. More student interference at this point will likely do more harm than good...