Word: harmlessness
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...they don’t need to get you in trouble.” Beyond its potential humiliation, Zapf-Belanger considers the tradition benign. “It’s fine if you don’t get the books sticky; it’s kind of a harmless thing.” Library representatives had no comment. Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) also didn’t shed much light on their approach to such incidents. HUPD spokesperson Steven G. Catalano writes in an e-mail: “As a matter of policy we never speak about...
...malnutrition - rather than a hardwired abnormality. Brain-imaging skeptics would argue that all Mondraty and Sachdev have observed is an extreme example of what happens in the brain when we focus on something that makes us feel anxious and inadequate, or when dread causes us to mistake the harmless for the fearsome - the garden hose for a snake...
...close to halftime. Collecting a pass from Polet off Harvard’s fourth of five corners in the half, Fuller shot, missed, and shot again, the ball edging just left of the post.The Bulldogs put themselves on the board, netting a late goal in the first. The seemingly harmless 24.3 seconds left on the clock were an eternity for the Crimson defense. Gaining only two shots in the half, Yale made its second shot count, sending the ball clamoring into the back board to cut the Harvard lead in half before the break.The Yale momentum, outliving the 15-minute...
...demand makes an easily grown weed literally worth its weight in gold. The only clear winners in the war on marijuana are drug cartels and shameless tough-on-drugs politicians who’ve built careers on confusing drug prohibition’s collateral damage with a relatively harmless plant. The big losers in this battle are the taxpayers who have been deluded into believing big government is the appropriate response to non-traditional consensual vices. ROBERT SHARPE Arlington, Va. October 10, 2006 The writer is a policy analyst for Common Sense for Drug Policy...
...you’ll find all the raw ambition that you could ever desire, along with enough resumé opportunities to make your head spin. Don’t be fooled by the apparent sappy altruism of your fellow volunteers—they won’t seem so harmless when they snatch up your job at Citigroup. If you happen to enjoy improving the lives of others, that’s great, but never lose sight of the bottom line that if you haven’t built a school in Malawi by the time you graduate, you?...