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...that Jackson's only motive in these missions is self-aggrandizement. There is a convincing case to be made for this accusation, but I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. I will assume that Jackson is merely interested in alleviating suffering and resolving conflicts. The harm done to our larger national goals is simply incidental. It would be a shame, then, to see Jackson retreat from his good works merely because they complicate our ability to manage consistently our international affairs. Perhaps he should just re-direct his energies to problems with less far-reaching implications...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: Another Cameo by the Reverend | 5/7/1999 | See Source »

...beginning to appreciate the psychological factors that drive people to commit violent crimes--the fatigue, the desperation. I eye Sunkist boy's kneecaps. I envision what it would look like to shatter them with a crow bar into many tiny pieces. I suspect that such an act will harm my chances of successfully becoming a VJ, but at this point I don't give a damn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editor's Note: Fame in the Name | 4/29/1999 | See Source »

Evil sneaks inside, steals laptops, burgles rooms, even rapes. Against such intrusion Harvard deploys police, guards, locks, and awareness, what all of us see as a common and largely successful effort against harm. We glance at the stranger, report the lurker, lock the door. About all that Assassin teaches little. No one calls the game Perimeter Defense or Scotland Yard. Yet our continuous awareness, sometimes great, sometimes less, of external threat frequently deflects out attention from the very real harm now and then occasioned by people inside the gates. Assassin is basic training against date-rape...

Author: By Professor JOHN R. stilgoe, | Title: IN THE MEANTIME | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

Antony Dugdale, a sixth-year student in Yale's philosophy and religion department and GESO member, said practices which adversely affect graduate students also harm undergraduates...

Author: By Matthew G.H. Chun, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Union Power in Ivory Towers | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...Evil sneaks inside, steals laptops, burgles rooms, even rapes. Against such intrusion Harvard deploys police, guards, locks, and awareness, what all of us see as a common and largely successful effort against harm. We glance at the stranger, report the lurker, lock the door. About all that Assassin teaches little. No one calls the game Perimeter Defense or Scotland Yard. Yet our continuous awareness, sometimes great, sometimes less, of external threat frequently deflects our attention from the very real harm now and then occasioned by people inside the gates. Assassin is basic training against date-rape...

Author: By Professor JOHN R. stilgoe, | Title: Why Not Assassin? | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

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