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...smoker, I understand how pleasant it would be to simply walk into a bar and demand that it cater to my particular smoke-free preferences, but what gives me the right to impose my personal choices on others? In a liberal democratic society, tolerance of harmless actions is a virtue that enables the peaceful functioning of society—“each person should enjoy maximum liberty, consistent with the like liberty of others.” J.S. Mill’s tolerance, rather than teetotalers, ought to be the model...

Author: By Piotr C. Brzezinski | Title: Full of Smoke and Fury | 5/19/2006 | See Source »

...RIDICULE The Da Vinci Code Response Group says it won't stoop to condemnations or boycotts but calls the film "harmless" and "grotesque...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 6 Ways to Break the Da Vinci Code | 5/15/2006 | See Source »

...always more popular in the West than he was among his countrymen, especially as they felt the effects of his reforms on their standard of living and watched their country's geopolitical status plummet in as little as five years from that of superpower to that of a harmless family drunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Russia Pushes Back at the U.S. | 5/10/2006 | See Source »

...fair, if they were at least resolute about their harmless acts of charity, I found myself altogether flummoxed about how I might make a difference. My volunteerism was limited to kicking around a few soccer balls with children at a Catholic orphanage once...

Author: By Travis R. Kavulla, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Good Works, Here and There | 5/8/2006 | See Source »

...physician-prescribed cheating is all but ignored today. I’m talking about the cheating that takes place in the academic sphere under the guise of the learning disability—in particular that associated with Adderall.Today, many physicians prescribe Adderall tablets as if they are as harmless as Jolly Ranchers. As a result, an influx of these pills make their way into the hands of enterprising youth, who in turn feed the flourishing black market for this drug on campuses—and increasingly, high schools—nationwide.Almost everyone on a college campus knows at least...

Author: By Stephen C. Bartenstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Wrong Message | 5/8/2006 | See Source »

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