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...contends that the denunciations leveled against the HRC by the HRRA stem from the HRRA's incorrect belief that the HRC and Peninsula at the time were interchangeable organizations rather than two separate clubs...

Author: By Flora Tartakovsky, | Title: PARTISAN STRIFE | 4/19/1996 | See Source »

...assertion that the government can operate the gambling industry better than the private sector is also incorrect. Adjusting for the fact that only betting with the government is legal, any bettor would much prefer a bookmaker. Bookmakers typically pay out 95 cents for every dollar bet, whereas state lotteries pay approximately 48 cents. Bookmakers pay on the spot, instead of stretching a million dollars into twenty annual payments of $50,000. They also offer much better odds: If bookmakers gave 13 million-to-one-odds, they would never take any bets at all; the only reason the government...

Author: By David Lehn, | Title: Don't Bet on Government | 4/13/1996 | See Source »

...headache remedies, no one realizes that the same two side effects may occur with negative campaigning in the political process. if each side keeps decrying the other for being immoral, we may not be able to judge with perspective the acts committed. Former vice president Dan Quayle's incorrect spelling of potato (with an e) seems to be on the same level of immorality as Sen. Bob Packwood's (R-Wash.) sexual harassment. By portraying so much of the government as corrupt, negative campaigning can also fan the flames of militia groups who believe there is no part...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Politics and Painkillers | 4/8/1996 | See Source »

...very professional group," Jeremy D. Fiebert '97, an officer of HACIA Democracy. "That statement is incorrect. We're educators and act responsibly...

Author: By Alexander D. Laskey, | Title: Harvard Sex Life Endures | 3/19/1996 | See Source »

Unless Ms. Milgrom-Elcott wants to argue that criminal records should themselves be abolished as a threat to the right of privacy, her point is both legally moot and historically incorrect. Given the existence of criminal records in the public domain, sexual offender registration laws are hardly the historic break with the "sacred values of our society" that Ms. Milgrom-Elcott claims they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sexual Offender Laws Hardly Threaten Right to Privacy | 3/19/1996 | See Source »

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