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...attack on Falwell and the New Right in anti-American rhetoric plays right into conservatives hands. No doubt Falwell will incorporate his Harvard visit into future sermons; "You should have seen the abuse that they heaped on God and our Flag when I was at Harvard, that citadel of sin and secular humanism." And it will work. Liberal harping on Falwell's alleged links to every ill from Hiroshima to Wounded Knee reinforces popular impressions of an arrogant, morally perverse intellectual elite sympathetic to America's enemies...
...question for millions of Americans is neither why nor how a person becomes an alcoholic, but how to treat the affliction. The first step, writes Vaillant, is recognizing that alcoholism is "neither a psychological symptom nor some vague unnamed metabolic riddle waiting to be deciphered." It is not a sin, but a progressive disease that may take years to acquire, and from which it may take years to recover. Writes Vaillant: "The task is to convince the patient not that he or she is an alcoholic, but that he or she is a decent person who has an insidious disease...
...special-interest greed." He recommended comprehensive drug law reform, including the "repeal of all exemptions from product liability laws for alcohol and tobacco," and having an assigned risk for the liabilities they cause. He also suggested a repeal of all excise taxes dealing with drugs and alcohol, saying "Sin taxes are the erasure of the separation between church and state...They create an intrinsic conflict of interest." If a taxation policy were to be adopted, he said, it should follows the policy recommended by the British Indian Hemp Commission in 1894: "taxation should be at such a level that...
Another researcher, Dr. Leon Bisenberg '67, said that death rates show that minorities on the average live five years less than whites "for the sin of not being Anglo in America...
...which, despite a live demonstration of the subject, the students pay about as much attention as if it were algebra period; a battlefield in which the officer class sleeps late, dines well and goes tiger shooting while the soldiers fight and die; a four-star restaurant in which the sin of gluttony is acted out with a vividness unprecedented in the history of cinema...