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According to DeLong, the grates were not always dangerous, and both Harvard and homelessness groups tried several tactics to restore the grates to their previous level of safety. Social workers tried to convince the men to stop harassing others, but to no avail. In addition, the police "tried to punish the troublemakers," said DeLong. "We had hoped to separate the people causing problems, and that that would solve the problem, but that was not the case. Each night [the police] would drag away the same people, but they would be back there the next night...
First, PUCC abhors the notion of directing U.C. grants to reward or punish ideology. We have proposed that a small sum of money--perhaps 2% of the council's semesterly budget--could be set aside to aid ad-hoc projects that engage in the defense of student interests. We understand those interests quite narrowly, as concerns that students hold and which affect a substantial portion of the College's population. Students working to maintain federal financial aid programs might qualify; those interested in, say, pro-choice advocacy, however urgent that issue may be, would have to look elsewhere. Every other...
...more attention we receive from people struggling to sort of punish us, the more attention the act will get, and in the end a larger audience will reach what we have to say," he said
...gold. The present tax code, he says, is "a source of political pollution. If you don't clear it out, the weeds will grow back again." And if a new tax system throws revenue projections out of whack, too bad. "If Congress can't get spending under control, why punish the rest of the nation?" he asks. Forbes' second area of concern is education, where he embraces the Republican idea of replacing what he calls the "inbred monopolistic structure" of the public schools with voucher plans. But on other social issues he is laissez-faire--moderately pro-choice, for instance...
...business, the larger, richer companies have an advantage, but is this unfair? The multi-billion dollar companies like AT&T and Microsoft achieved their corporate success through innovation, determination, and by providing a better product, whether it be long-distance calls or computer operating systems. Why should we punish them for being good? Isn't this detrimental to competition? What's the point of trying if you know that once you get to a certain point you'll have to start all over again because the government has ripped apart the corporation that you so painstakingly put together...