Word: harmfulness
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...deal will cause conflicted emotions among other writers. On the one hand, traditions of literary purity will be offended: "I am shocked! Shocked!..." On the other hand, garret-dwelling, check-bouncing, alimony-dodging authors will find that a light-bulb has popped on in their minds. Where's the harm in mentioning that Raskolnikov favored Armani suits? In letting it slip that Rhett Butler splashed on a little Brut, or that Jake Barnes wore Guccis in order to feel at home among the Eurotrash...
...just how powerful the home-schooling movement has become. Penney's had recently started selling a T shirt that wickedly crystallized many people's assumptions about the movement: HOME SKOOLED, giggles the shirt, which also depicts a trailer home. The folks at Penney's say they meant no harm--they didn't even design the T, which had become popular in other stores first. But they yanked it from the shelves Aug. 8 after enraged missives poured in from home-schooling families, some of whom threatened a boycott...
...impossible, to establish a direct cause and effect relationship between Courtney?s alleged criminal activity and a specific death. But, says Dr. Joan Bull, professor and director of medical oncology at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston, it should not be difficult to show that Courtney inflicted harm: "These patients were going through their therapy, assuming they were getting the right dose, and all the time they weren?t getting an anti-tumor response...
...legally, but in fact they may be better off under the old rule: if you are prohibited from blowing the whistle, no one can blame you if you don't. What the new rules offer lawyers is a moral opportunity to sound the alarm about clients bent on doing harm--and of course, an opportunity for good publicity...
...same meeting, however, the A.B.A. balked at adopting a companion proposal that would have allowed disclosure of client secrets when the risk of harm is only financial. Under the rejected rule, a lawyer would have been able, for example, to rat on a client who was committing fraud. The measure's critics argued that it would make the loophole too large and would too often put lawyers at odds with their clients. It could also, they warned, harm a client's legal representation by leading the client to hide significant facts from his attorney...