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...definitely does harm involvement with the [political party] clubs, but we've also put on a lot of successful events together," says Michael J. Passante '99, president of the College Democrats, who is also a member of the Student Affairs Committee (SAC) at the IOP. "We try to cooperate with other campus groups rather than viewing it as competition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Dems Try to Hold Onto Campus Liberals | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

...champion her findings--is try to understand why TT does anything at all. Maybe it's just a placebo effect. Maybe the simple fact that someone is hovering over you, paying attention to you, has therapeutic value. But, if so, that's not such a bad thing. And what harm would there be in learning how to do it better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Emily's Little Experiment | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

...money and a team of highly motivated lawyers, advantages most sexual-harassment plaintiffs don't have, Jones lost. What is more, many judges think sexual-harassment claims have gone too far, that one-time propositions like Clinton's should not be the basis for litigation. Call this the "no harm, no foul" school, and include among its proponents a majority of the Supreme Court. Justice Antonin Scalia, for instance, recently wrote that sexual-harassment law should not be interpreted as a "general civility code" for the nation. (As the famously brusque Justice surely knows, rudeness is all-American and fully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Try This At The Office | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

...problem is that harm is being done. What is lost in all the hype is that virtual reality is just that--virtual. Politicians and lawmakers see the Internet as a mainstream medium; an alternative to contemporary notions of commerce and education. But this is not, nor will it ever be, its function...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, | Title: Political Potholes on the Superhighway | 4/8/1998 | See Source »

...wants their children exposed to obscene material. Those who oppose such legislation are derisively labeled as "anti-family values" or "criminal defenders." By billing the Internet as vital to our very existence, law-makers can do what they want with it. And so long as there is no obvious harm done, which usually is the case, no one seems to mind...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, | Title: Political Potholes on the Superhighway | 4/8/1998 | See Source »

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