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...fighting a plan to build two large nuclear plants on the shores of the Skagit River, campaigning to have a 59-mile stretch of it protected from any kind of development under the federal Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. The plants, Ray argues, are necessary and will cause no harm...
Traditionally, a prison sentence was supposed to serve four purposes: 1) rehabilitation, giving the prisoner an opportunity to learn a trade and go straight; 2) to keep him from further opportunity to harm society; 3) the meting out of "just desserts," society's penalty for misbehavior; 4) the deterrent value-a reminder to citizens generally and the offender in particular of the consequences of crime...
...line on prices at the end of the year? No one knows. But Barre, a former Common Market commissioner, has the advantage of at least understanding that France's economic destiny is not decided only in Paris and that quickie solutions may in the long run do more harm than good...
...with the musician's fingers that tremble with his second joint. I think of a man who had grown up next door to my best friend in England. Where you can register, legally, as an addict and the glib talkers can proclaim, "See, heroin itself doesn't do any harm. What's wrong is the social system of a country like America, where the addict is a criminal because he's hooked, and because he's hooked he has to become a criminal." And that's all? I wonder. I think of that man in England. Carrying around his syringe...
...yakuza (good-for-nothings) are part of a chivalric tradition that dates back to the 17th century, when unemployed samurai turned to Robin Hood-style banditry. Even today the yakuza like to think of themselves as romantic outlaws, bound together by a blood oath of loyalty, who never harm the innocent...