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Second, cigars, like other tobacco products, are known carcinogens. The Undergraduate Council used student funds to promote this unhealthy practice. A body representing the concerns of the students should not use their money to give them things which cause harm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cigars Not Appropriate For First-Year Formal | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...went too far in revealing facts about the suspect in custody. Maybe it didn't Either way, a great deal of energy has been wasted and misdirected on this question. I don't mean to minimize the injury resulting from any part of this tragedy. But all the personal harm possible from character misrepresentation or even from defamation, whether valid or not, pales in comparison to the life-altering havoc wreaked on a victim of sexual assault, and that's what lies at the heart of this incident...

Author: By Edward G. Smith, | Title: Recognizing Your Faults | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...another key witness could end up doing Jones more harm than good. Her team was hoping that the testimony of former White House volunteer Kathleen Willey would help their case. Willey has reportedly said in a videotaped deposition that Clinton made an uninvited pass at her in the White House in November 1993, when Willey came to talk with the President about job opportunities. But sources tell TIME that Julie Hiatt Steele, once a close friend of Willey's, signed an affidavit last Friday, at the request of Clinton's lawyers, suggesting that the encounter may have been more innocent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could Clinton Still Settle With Jones? | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...crime by definition supposed to cause harm? While distasteful, cloning humans for harvesting organs would not actually harm anyone. Executing people for doing "distasteful" things is characteristic of countries like Iran or Stalin's U.S.S.R. Is Krauthammer's attitude yet another indicator that this is where the U.S. is heading? PETTERI SULONEN Helsinki...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 16, 1998 | 2/16/1998 | See Source »

...tape the millennium to a novel you're already writing? Almost any contemporary fiction, no matter how inconsequential and light-minded, has a fighting chance of taking on weight and portent, perhaps even significance, if shoved 23 months into the future. And if significance is elusive, where's the harm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: As The Millennium Turns | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

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