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...undermines the legal system - society would collapse if everyone applied this principle for his own social grievance. And it is difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish between "nonviolent" and "violent" drug offenses. The seeds of violence - shattered lives, shattered bodies, broken homes - are sown every time illegal drugs "peacefully" pass from hand to hand. We indeed need a new script for the next act in the war on drugs. But we need people other than The Wire's creators to write it for us. John Hickey, New York City...
...undermines the legal system--society would collapse if everyone applied this principle for his own social grievance. And it is difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish between "nonviolent" and "violent" drug offenses. The seeds of violence--shattered lives, shattered bodies, broken homes--are sown every time illegal drugs "peacefully" pass from hand to hand. We indeed need a new script for the next act in the war on drugs. But we need people other than The Wire's creators to write...
...Avoiding a sophomore slump may be more difficult than simply staying in her rhythm. Opposing teams will certainly be keyed in on Murphy. In a four-game series against Dartmouth at the end of last season, the Big Green gave “Murph” a free pass in eight at-bats. It’s hard to blame them, though—when they did pitch to her, Murphy connected for a grand slam. With that kind of power behind her bat, it is likely that the base-on-balls trend will continue this season...
...People kind of gave a pass to the administration for the justification of it [the war],” Bilmes said, “and they gave a pass for thinking about the possibility that the whole thing would bog down into an unimaginable quagmire...
...your education,” says Charlotte L. Kemper ’07, a former History and Literature concentrator, who now works at Fidelity Investments. While she says that her Harvard education admittedly allows her to think critically and qualitatively at Fidelity—granting her the permission to pass on the number crunching to her colleagues—its value in her life is slim...