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...problems that have arisen for a faulty system. The Staff itself even recognizes that the choices the cardinal made were the result of conflicting pressures and information. He weighed contradictory information and made a judgement about Geoghan, a choice that, although tragically wrong, was in no way designed to harm anyone...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: A Cardinal Sin | 3/13/2002 | See Source »

...There's a good reason for that. On the whole, we tend to like our monsters large. No accidental bad guys for us - no doubting, fallible, uncertain villains who stumble improvisationally from crime to crime, blinking in occasional surprise at their own power to do harm. No, we prefer cunning, slit-eyed evildoers, malefactors who plan their crimes with dispassionate genius, then execute them with reptilian calm. What sense does a devil make if he acts too much like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Idiocy of Evil | 3/12/2002 | See Source »

...person at the top of the chain of command was killed or missing, the accused might get away with their crimes. But we now have an opportunity to prosecute the remorseless Slobodan Milosevic. His acts were worse than those of Osama bin Laden. The genocide and rapes will harm people for generations to come. GURKAN HASIRCIOGLU Centurion, South Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 11, 2002 | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

...available as ever, with 89 percent of high school seniors reporting last year that it was fairly easy or very easy to obtain. It is not surprising then that 734,000 people were arrested on marijuana-related charges in 2000, 88 percent for simple possession. Such enforcement produces more harm than it prevents. It criminalizes large numbers of otherwise law-abiding people who have in no way impinged upon the liberties of others. Furthermore, it disproportionately affects America’s youth and minority communities, and the harm done to their futures far outweighs the harm of marijuana itself...

Author: By Jared M. Fleisher and Tobias G. Snyder, S | Title: Marijuana Reconsidered | 3/7/2002 | See Source »

...terror, Bush famously vowed, will take many years and span the globe. Already it has put American troops in harm's way in Afghanistan?and now the southern Philippines, where last week an American MH-47 Chinook helicopter went down in the shark-infested waters between southern Negros and northern Mindanao after ferrying soldiers and supplies to fight on the small island of Basilan. As of last weekend, three crew members' bodies had been recovered and seven more were unaccounted for. That this second front in the war on terror has turned costly was to be expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rumbles in the Jungle | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

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