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Weiland could have redressed the harm of adverse publicity simply by suspending the players for several days. In fact, B.U. coach Jack Kelly had publicly requested that the Harvard players be reinstated for the Cornell game, Saturday. Instead, to provide an example and to teach his team a lesson, Weiland held the suspension through the Cornell game. In so doing, he endangered Harvard's chances for a major upset and a first-division finish in the Ivy League. But more important he refused to sacrifice sports ethics and behavior for wins...
...special message to Congress last week, "that the United States lead the world in a war against hunger." In that war, he added, "the key to victory is selfhelp. Aid must be accompanied by a major effort on the part of those who receive it. Unless it is, more harm than good can be the end result." So noting, Johnson unveiled his long-awaited pro posal to turn agricultural foreign aid into breadbasket diplomacy...
...these particles-mostly protons and electrons-approach the earth, most are caught in its magnetic field or absorbed by its atmosphere. They cause long-distance communications blackouts and set off vivid displays of northern lights, but they do no harm to humans. The moon, however, has no atmosphere or magnetic field to stop the particles; they reach its surface at velocities great enough for -the heavier protons to penetrate space suits and the thin walls of a Lunar Excursion Module (LEM). Caught on the surface of the moon, astronauts might receive a fatal dose of proton radiation before they could...
...John Fowles is arachnid. In The Collector, his brilliant first novel, the central character is a spidery psychopath who ensnares a pretty girl and plays with her as a child plays with a doll, not consciously meaning any harm, until the poor thing falls apart. In his second novel, Fowles repeats his pattern but not his success...
...earlier this year forced cancellation of a speech on racial peace by former Little Rock Congressman Brooks Hays and subsequently prevented Negroes from holding civil rights demonstrations. Judge Wisdom left no doubt as to his own opinions of the Klan, branded defendant Klansmen as "ignorant bullies, callous of the harm they know they are doing and lacking in sufficient understanding to comprehend the chasm between their own twisted Konstitution and the noble charter of liberties under law that is the American Constitution...