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...reprise, I argued in my letter that the Final Clubs' role in the life of the College is inconsequential; that their discriminatory practices do no serious harm; and that it is puritanical, in that circumstance, to insist they change their ways or depart our midst. I implied that we all profit form having some among as who march to a different drummer. Laissez-faire. In his response, Stevens charges me with inconsistency, recalling, quite mistakenly, that three years ago I argued in favor of restricting the rights of homosexuals. Not so. Then, as now, I argued against restricting individual freedom...
There is of course, ample room for honest disagreement as to when the harm caused by individuals acting freely is so great as to justify the harm inherent in restricting them. My basic quarrel with Mr. Stevens, I think, is that he seems unaware that every restriction involves such a trade-off; once convinced of what's right, he assumes all should be made to conform, whether or not lack of conformity does great harm. The fact that the Final Clubs practice sex discrimination, simply as a matter of preference, is sufficient to persuade him (and the Committee on College...
...formidable mother Lily. Her first baby had died at birth. The second, born on New Year's Day in 1879, survived, but his father was dead of tuberculosis 22 months later. Lily and a clutch of female relatives and friends conspired to keep young Edward from all harm; they mercilessly spoiled him, referred to him as "the Important One" in his presence and left him unprepared for the schoolboys who later called him "Mousie" instead...
...suit for negligence, under which a plaintiff would have to prove carelessness on the part of Union Carbide. But more appealing is the doctrine of strict liability, under which negligence need not be proved. Said Belli: "It doesn't matter that you didn't intend to bring harm. What matters is that it happened. In this Bhopal case we can damn well prove that it happened." His plan: "We'll have videotape of all those poor bastards who are sick and dying. We will have a brochure on every single person who was killed...
...wrong to try to impose it on the entire U.S. public. "We are holding out the promise that the whole population will benefit from this, and that is unrealistic," says Dr. Edward Ahrens, a leading cholesterol researcher at Rockefeller University. But Steinberg argues that the diet can do no harm and hardly poses a hardship: "There is no reason a person can't follow it and still have a sundae at Haagen-Dazs every Saturday...