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...freedom of speech only for the broad-minded or the better educated? Can one speak only after studying whatever one has reason, from one's beliefs, to denounce? Then most of us would be doing a great deal less speaking than we do. If one has never seen any snuff movies, is that a bar to criticizing them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: In Praise of Censure | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

This is where the riders come in. These and other snags in the shuttle system deserve reconsideration and perhaps change. The shuttle exists to serve the Harvard community, so if you think the shuttle isn't up to snuff, tell the people in charge--specifically: Ed Casey, Facilities Maintenance, 175 N Harvard Street, Cambridge...

Author: By Lawrence B. Finer, | Title: Driving For Service | 4/26/1989 | See Source »

Then junior Amy Neuhardt, whose 5-4 win over Gray earlier in the match gave the Crimson a huge lift, crushed Porter, 5-2, to snuff out any hope of an Eli comeback. Papailias ended the match impressively, destroying Campbell with a 5-0 shutout...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swordswomen Blow by Bulldogs, 10-6 | 3/2/1989 | See Source »

...week. So, too, was a good portion of myclassmates. Intimidated, I sucked down one or twoof the beers they fed us and made a beeline out ofthe place. I also went to the Lampoon compmeeting and the same thing happened. I was afraidof failure, of not measuring up to snuff at thefamous institutions of the Big H. Afraid that Icouldn't do things well, I chose not to do them atall...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: Looking Back at the Experiences of the Class of '88 | 6/8/1988 | See Source »

...goal of sensible social policy should be to channel this natural human desire in safer directions, not to snuff it out, which is neither possible nor desirable. Thinking about the drug problem in this way focuses special attention on the role of marijuana. Current policy steers people like you and me, fellow bourgeois TIME readers, away from marijuana and toward alcohol. Is that a good idea? I'm not sure. Legalizing marijuana might steer the users of crack, heroin, PCP, etc., toward grass instead. Whether that's a good idea seems much clearer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Glass Houses and Getting Stoned | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

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