Word: harmless
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...turned out to be a total coincidence," says a Justice Department official. When notified that Berg had been picked up in Mosul, the FBI might have wondered if its original assessment was wrong. After conducting a "thorough review of records," the agents decided once again that he was harmless--and possibly in danger...
Would-be protesters are dogged by two counter-objections: the claims that the humorous nature of the writing makes it harmless (“it need not be protested”), and that the writing is protected as free speech and free press (“it cannot be protested”). The first argument is easily disproven. It supposes that mockery, by being different from more severe expressions of racial ill will, is necessarily distinct from them. If this is true, then what taboo bars enjoyment of blackface comedy? The derision inherent in blackface, like that...
...minded patriot, passing the Germanic Museum any night this last week, seing lights on, and hearing strange Germanic noises issuing from the sinister bowels of the building, would probably have felt perfectly justified in calling either the police or Alfred Hitchcock. The goings-on, however, although unusual, were quite harmless, being only rehearsals for the Museum's impending performances of Hoffmannsthal's "Jedermann...
...challenge mounted by the Tigers (5-11, 2-3) in singles play proved equally harmless, as the Crimson dispatched each match in straight sets...
...viruses to trick you into downloading an attachment. Socially-engineered viruses aren’t new, but their recent rise in sophistication is. Viruses like Sobig, Mydoom, Netsky and Bagle “spoof” (or fake) sender addresses, create believable e-mail texts and give their attachments harmless names, all in an effort to convince you to download and run their harmful payloads. Bagle.J, for instance, sent a message to Harvard students from what appeared to be “Harvard.edu Technical Support,” explaining that the attached file was for antivirus protection. But instead...