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...sport, they claim, is far safer today than it was a generation or more ago when Bruton and Corsellis' subjects were in the ring. Moreover, defenders of boxing maintain, soccer and rugby players also run the risk of head injuries. While acknowledging that these arguments are partly accurate, Corsellis is unimpressed. As a result of his work, he would support a move to bar boxing...
...Hail! to the Chief was made, no distributor would touch it; the movie seemed to fall somewhere between poor taste and treason. Now, post-Watergate, it has had no trouble finding a distributor; it seems to fall somewhere between poor taste and topicality. Moral: for some moviemakers, it is safer to be accused of quickie exploitation than of insight or prophecy...
...fundamental principle to be kept in mind in selecting premed courses as a freshman is it is always safer to enroll in easier courses as a freshman and then move up to the more difficult ones as a sophomore and beyond. (note: this is contrary to the advice given by most science departments). Perhaps the most important single factor determining whether a freshman goes on to be "premed" or drops the idea is his performance in premedical courses as a freshman. All too often students enter their sophomore years with poor grades in two or three difficult...
...Riggs "because of the humor he injects into the terribly serious business of sexism," and "because of the entertainment factor he provides for the sanctimonious world of tennis." Barrett's wife, however, is the head of a local women's rights group. "So it's safer for me," he says, "to point out that Billie Jean is a hell of a player - and a good guy besides...
Furthermore, the military provides an unusual degree of upward mobility only in proportion to the lack of other safer, more profitable, more prestigious alternatives. White employers have always proved more predisposed to hire blacks to die in wars for them than to pay blacks equal salaries for steady civilian jobs...