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...Harvard can afford to dish out all those goodies while depriving its actual undergraduate population of arguably the most important meal of the day. And why is it that we can afford to keep the HUDS worker whose job consists of standing by the back door of Annenberg to prevent students from surreptitiously making off with dishware, while we can’t keep the grill worker who makes omelets each morning...
...fact, the same arguments that many proffer in favor of same-sex marriage can also justify incest. If marriage ought to be redefined as a union of two consenting, loving individuals in which reproduction is not a factor, then what reason is there to prevent two siblings or cousins from marrying? Reproduction cannot be a stipulation for marriage, as that would bar infertile couples from wedding. But then what stipulation would prohibit incest? The answer, of course, is incest’s status as a taboo...
...more worryingly - up to 20 million illegal weapons. Germany tightened its gun-control laws in 2002, after a school shooting in the central town of Erfurt left 18 dead. But after the Winnenden shooting earlier this year, campaigners lobbied the government for even tougher legislation, which, they say, could prevent further massacres. (See pictures of the Virginia Tech tragedy...
...paintball fans complain that the proposed laws are heavy-handed, some politicians claim the measures are shortsighted, warning that tighter gun legislation isn't a quick fix to tackling gun crime. "There isn't a magic formula to prevent a killing spree," says Dieter Wiefelspuetz, interior policy spokesman for the Social Democrats. "The biggest challenge is to examine why some young men turn violent when they grow...
...reaching: Obama has stopped short of calling for anything more than a probe into the genesis of the Bush-era tactics. True, a probe might well lead to more questions about Cheney's conduct, but Obama has specifically ruled out legal action against the CIA officers. (Read "Did Waterboarding Prevent Terrorist Attacks...