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...enough. Peninsula and its good friend Sumner Anderson '92 have once again caused Harvard students, myself included, to waste precious time in useless debate. It is sad that many talented students are wasting their time debating the rights of homosexuals when our society is faced with poverty, homelessness, drugs, child abuse and the list goes...
...frustrating that negative debate and precious time is being wasted on an issue which is obvious. We live in America, the land of the free. This debate has shown that freedom has a different meaning to many people. For me, freedom is the ability to do as one pleases as long as one does not offend the rights of others. But no matter how one views freedom, the bottom line is that under the law, one is free to do as one pleases as long as they do not break...
...year simply by curbing fraud and unnecessary practice. We know where the problems lie. Doing something about them is at the very least our moral duty and is profoundly in our self- interest as a nation. Depriving millions of Americans of health care is wrong. Wasting billions of precious medical dollars on paperwork, dead-end procedures and outright theft is stupid. Undermining the health of our workers and children for lack of political gumption is suicidal. It is time to make the hard choices...
...During the night of Feb. 2-3, 1990, masked men surprised six unarmed guards watching a storeroom in Herculaneum, ancient Pompeii's bedfellow in fate when Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79. After breaking through a wall, the thieves took four hours to select 223 of the most precious antiquities, as if they had a dealer's catalog in hand. Estimated value: $18 million. None of the relics have resurfaced...
...world is being looted. From New York to Phnom Penh, from ancient ruins in Turkey to up-to-date museums in Amsterdam, precious records of human culture are vanishing into the dark as thieves steal with near impunity. Paintings, prints, statuary, rare coins, rare books and cultural treasures of every kind and all ages are being snatched...