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...operation of the libel laws is even more serious. Judges and juries are increasingly inclined to regard any criticism as defamation and to award damages out of all relation to any harm done. The trouble here is not that newspapers do commit libels and do pay heavy damages...
...scholars, for research. Pusey, in fact, has stated that he feels most scholars are fully as loyal to their discipline as to their college. Only a man who sympathized with this orientation toward scholarship could lead the Faculty. But leadership too far in the direction of research would harm the College, even if it enhanced the University's status as a center of knowledge...
...takes his inoculations on one of the armed forces' medical production lines, many a G.I. has been moved to rueful speculation: How many shots must a man get before they begin to do more harm than good? Last week an Air Force doctor provided an answer that was hardly reassuring for the needle-shy. Repeated inoculations of vaccines, reported Major Rexford Haycraft, are not organically harmful...
...lawyer by training, Segni is also an experienced politician (twice Premier: 1955-57; 1959-60) and a thoughtful statesman who describes his outlook on history as Tolstoyan. "Men in government," he has written, "really have only an enormous capacity for doing harm. Their chances for doing good are very few and hard to come by." As Italy's President for the next seven years, Segni has a rare opportunity for doing good...
...specialists were unable to agree on what, exactly, was a safe distance, for no adequate experiments have been carried out on human eyes. Nevertheless, those conducting the tests feel sure that Hawaiians will be safe from harm. --From The New York Times, April...