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Even the perfect victim, voluntarily accepting a small risk, needs to be saved according to nanny-state activists, because smokers impose healthcare costs on society. However, the cold logic of smoking actually produces savings; by dying younger, smokers save society the trouble of paying for old-age healthcare costs and Social Security benefits. Including cigarette taxes, smokers are often actually a net benefit to federal and state treasuries...

Author: By Piotr C. Brzezinski | Title: Full of Smoke and Fury | 5/19/2006 | See Source »

...dearth of utilitarian logic behind smoking bans doesn’t prevent the self-righteous paternalists, who argue that smokers need to be saved from themselves. After England passed a total ban on smoking in public places, The Guardian newspaper congratulated parliamentarians on rescuing citizens: “[Smokers] need not just encouragement to stop, but help.” Why not cut to the chase and ban cigarettes altogether...

Author: By Piotr C. Brzezinski | Title: Full of Smoke and Fury | 5/19/2006 | See Source »

...like this, the question should never be what you are against.” But those colonial New England preachers understood a practical fact about communities: though we might wish it otherwise, people find unity and value by focusing together on what they oppose. Hence the jeremiad employs the logic of opposition—and, remarkably, it does so without demonizing other people. Sin is found within the congregation, not elsewhere; any witch-hunt goes on in your own soul. So the question is: What should Harvard oppose in order to know itself better? For me, the beginning...

Author: By Jim Von der heydt, | Title: A Jeremiad for an American School | 5/17/2006 | See Source »

...Changing direction requires...leadership that views the university idealistically, as something more than a business and something more than a slave to the logic of economic competition,” Lewis read from his book...

Author: By Ying Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ex-Dean Excoriates Harvard Higher-Ups | 5/17/2006 | See Source »

...largely untainted by any non-soccer factors. The stocks weren't big gainers before or after. They showed unusual strength only in the three-month periods. The idea, then, was to let the market identify stocks that benefited from Europe's soccer mania--without requiring an abundance of fundamental logic. "We recommend investing in these stocks immediately and closing the investment on the final day of the World Cup," the UBS guys write. And how. Certainly, Coke and Fuji have been dogs for years even if others, like Heineken, have been steady winners. If you're going to play this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Score | 5/15/2006 | See Source »

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