Word: restraint
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...copyright infringement by students. Should Metallica or other artists inform the University of cases of copyright infringement, the DMCA would require Harvard to remove the network access of repeat offenders. Yet the concept of a "repeat" offender is not well-defined, and we encourage the University to use restraint in removing students' access to the network. Official warnings should be sufficient in most cases to scare students into compliance, and the heavy penalty of losing network access--which, Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 has noted, could substantially interfere with course work--should be reserved for more intransigent...
...Futterman should also be praised for playing Charlie with a restraint and depth that are rare in most films. Though his character is gay, Futterman refuses to portray him as anything but a suffering human. In doing so, Futterman allows Charlie to become someone we can all identify with, further adding to the impact Urbania will have on its audiences...
...fact that many popular tax breaks now scheduled to expire will almost certainly be renewed. The projections also assume that discretionary spending, such as the defense and education budgets, will grow no faster than inflation. Judging from recent history, Congress is unlikely to show that kind of restraint. "At best, we have a small surplus, nothing like the numbers that are being talked about," says Henry Aaron, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. In other words, Bush and Gore are arguing about how to spend $2 trillion that may not exist...
...peace and prosperity we enjoy, Clinton is likely to be remembered as a fine President, victimized by our cultural obsession with celebrity scandal while being its ideal representative. He's the mirror of our times, the quintessential baby-boomer American--lofty ideals, a generous heart but no self-restraint. History could very well love him. HELEN STUTCHBURY San Diego...
...fact that many popular tax breaks now scheduled to expire will almost certainly be renewed. The projections also assume that discretionary spending, such as the defense and education budgets, will grow no faster than inflation. Judging from recent history, Congress is unlikely to show that kind of restraint. "At best, we have a small surplus, nothing like the numbers that are being talked about," says Henry Aaron, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. In other words, Bush and Gore are arguing about how to spend $2 trillion that may not exist...