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...like trying to teach a two-year-old that radiators burn in the middle of the summertime. It's a crazy imbalance to stress marijuana hallucinations when 99% of the kids who try a marijuana cigarette don't get hallucinations, and it may do serious harm. A lot of heroin users say, 'You lied to us about pot-so we didn't believe you about heroin...
...until proved innocent. There is also rising concern about the Government's increasing use of conspiracy laws against leaders of dissident political groups. Indeed, some scholars agree with Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, who argues: "I would wipe the law clean of conspiracy; on balance, it does more harm than good...
...think the use by faculty of ethnic principles of group segmentation-which is what a Jewish faculty group, Irish faculty group, Negro faculty group, etc, amount to-a sad and pathetic event, especially in Harvard University. It can only do harm to the intellectual and academic life of this institution and I should hope that those who participate in formalized ethnic groupings within the Harvard Faculty reflect again on their behavior...
...must be aware of the sexual relationship between the stepfather and the mother, as the sword between the stepfather's legs is the largest weapon in the drawing." Billy, obviously jealous, drew himself throwing darts at his stepfather. The darts were very small and could do no harm; the boy must therefore have realized how powerless he was. That feeling of impotence, the authors say, may have accounted for Billy's "bad" behavior at home and at school...
...provided the intellectual backing for the old one. Milton Friedman, 58, a bouncy, bantam-size economist, has seldom been a more controversial oracle than at present. Friedman argues that, because it is based on uncertain statistics and fallible judgments, Government tinkering with the economy is more likely to cause harm than good. He insists that the best policy would call for a sure and steady expansion of the nation's money supply at an annual rate of about 5%. Money supply, he says, controls economic growth and, over the long run. the pace at which prices rise or fall...