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Although most artful applications are relatively harmless, there are risks. Some antimedicine pet owners talk about refusing to have their pets vaccinated--which in many states would be a violation of the law. The danger is that by relying on homeopathic remedies instead of vaccines to protect against, say, rabies or feline leukemia, these true believers could contribute to a larger outbreak that all the healing auras in the alternative universe could not combat...
...sensitive direction allows the film both to indict and to forgive these characters at the same time. The presence of sin is unmistakable--even the name of the town, New Canaan, has Biblical implications--but no one really bears the blame. Many of the characters' actions seem harmless enough until they're in too deep to turn around. Ben and Janey's affair is so casual and matter-of-fact that it's easy to forget the pain they are causing others, and even themselves...
...What we are selling is totally harmless," the source said. "What we are providing is not a Web site that tells you how to build a suitcase atom bond, not pornography and not one of the 250 racial and ethnic hate sites. What we are offering for sale are such dangerous items as a paper on the relationship between Hamlet and his mother...
...counter to the College's stance against underage drinking, it is better to appear contradictory than to remain powerless to curb this threat to students' lives. At the very least, Krueger's terrible death has snapped college students back into the grim realization that, while drinking is enjoyable and harmless most of the time, when someone drinks so much that he or she loses all self-control, that person is flirting with death. That fact should be drilled into all first-years' minds...
Moreover, police should not have threatened students for what was clearly harmless, reasonable behavior. Especially considering the fact what wasn't a school night...