Word: smokes
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Harvard, acting in loco parentis, should make this judgment. It should forbid smoking by all individuals on Harvard property, for their own sake and for the sake of those around them. If students or employees want to smoke, they can go to public property. If this is too inconvenient, maybe they will break a destructive habit...
...believe that this is a positive step in University policy for the time being, but, in the future, a more accommodating solution can be reached. Second-hand smoke is a hazard to non-smokers; innocent by-standers should not bear the burden of their fellow inhabitants' addiction. The existing policy already prohibits smoking in upperclass houses and the Yard dorms, and no student may be forced to live with any student who smokes. So the new policy is not an unprecedented leap; instead, it seems merely to assure non-smokers that their environment is truly smoke-free...
...then pure terror," Bush said last week. "The cockpit was filled with smoke. I could see the flames a few inches from the gas tanks. I stuck my head out, and the wind sucked me out of the cockpit. I must have pulled the rip cord then--too early. My head grazed the elevator at the tail. The chute had several panels ripped out as it momentarily hung up. I was so lucky. An inch or two difference, and I would have been killed by the blow or dragged down with the plane...
Those who are in charge of the congressional hearings have the majority in both houses and can pass meaningful campaign-finance-reform legislation, if that is what they really want. Sadly, I think we will find the real purpose of the hearings is to embarrass the Democrats. When the smoke has cleared, there will be no real reform. Business as usual. BILL RICHMOND Carmichael, California...
...would be nice if there are places inside where we could smoke, especially in the winter months," he said...