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...their cachet is not the only thing that should save fireplaces in Harvard’s Houses. There’s also no good reason to prohibit students from safely lighting fires in their rooms. Other than a few false fire alarms, there haven’t been any major incidents involving student fireplaces in years. Furthermore, tutors—who are often only a few years older than the undergraduates they supervise—still retain the right to use the fireplaces in their suites. The administration, apparently, assumes that fires lit by law school students aren?...
Recent efforts by social conservatives to amend the Constitution to prohibit gay marriage are deplorable and discriminatory. Such an amendment would undermine the fundamental notions of equality and freedom on which our country was founded and would mark a significant setback in the progress that gay people—and other traditionally oppressed groups—have made toward equality. It would offer no practical benefits to anyone and is an egregious, offensive intrusion into the lives of citizens who wish only to enjoy the same rights as everyone else. If there is to be a constitutional amendment regarding...
What I'm doing is ethical. Laws that prohibit you from being free with your consciousness are un-democratic. - ANANDA SCHOUTEN, Dutch wholesaler...
...Ananda Schouten says France has the most restrictive laws, but looser rules in Germany and Britain have spawned dozens of full-fledged smart shops in those countries. Schouten claims to take a missionary view of his business. "I think what I'm doing is ethical," he says. "Laws that prohibit you from being free with your own consciousness are undemocratic." Sitting outside PuraVida, Roberto Bartoccini, 21, agrees. He is a fan of the new store and their "charge-up" drinks for his occasional nights out on the town. But, he says, there's one product still missing. "This is great...
...that Hong Kong?where more than a million people took to the streets in the runup to the June 4, 1989, killings?would become a center for subversion. So in the second draft of the Basic Law, they amended Article 23 by adding that the territory should legislate to prohibit "any act of subversion against the Central People's Government." Beijing's attitude toward Hong Kong then could be summarized in one word: control. Now, because of the constraints of the Basic Law, Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa and his officials?whom we should assume are essentially good people?have...