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After much debate, the Senators last week struck a deal to make sure that Thompson never gets close enough to do them any harm. Only "illegal activities" during the 1996 race would come under scrutiny, which, we now know, takes the most unseemly hustling--all the soft money and all the independent expenditures--off the table and leaves only questions like whether Beijing secretly funded anyone's campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEGAL TENDER | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

Libertarianism both flows from and into extreme individualism. It denies that the community (which acts through government) has any right, obligation or duty to infringe upon the individual, unless the individual's actions manifestly harm another. It gives government only the minimal means of providing for society. These means are limited to the police and military force, the criminal justice system and pure public goods such as the infrastructure and water systems. To replace all other roles which government plays, it relies solely on personal responsibility both for one's actions and one's fate...

Author: By Thomas B. Cotton, | Title: Self-Made at Harvard | 3/15/1997 | See Source »

...manifesto of libertarianism, consistently tops the list of favorite student readings. In all areas, Harvard students find it preposterous to adhere to anything other than their own unfettered will. Imagine, the audacity of such a notion that the community should subject us to any laws surpassing the "no-harm principle...

Author: By Thomas B. Cotton, | Title: Self-Made at Harvard | 3/15/1997 | See Source »

...hardly shocking that it took only three minutes for Saints' forward Paul DiFrancesco to inflict harm with a one-timer from just inside the right face-off circle. Although it was only the first tally of the game for St. Lawrence, by the look of Harvard's play, it certainly didn't figure to be the last...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, | Title: Men's Hockey Stays Alive With 4-2 Win | 3/5/1997 | See Source »

Although the posters were all torn down, Peninsula members said they may have done lasting harm to the magazine...

Author: By Caitlin E. Anderson, | Title: Peninsula Calls Parody Assault on Free Speech | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

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