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...biological opinion about the Mt. Graham Red Squirrel from the Fish and Wildlife Service's regional director, Michael Spear, wreaked havoc in local and national environmental circles. He argued that the proposed observatory would not threaten the fragile squirrel population...
Perhaps the ultimate irony is that alcohol laws threaten to do what years of activist boycotts, picnics and sing-alongs could not: take the fun out of the clubs, and by doing so, destroy their impact on Harvard social life...
Beyond these three economic force fields, national, tribal and religious conflicts threaten to turn many parts of the world into larger Lebanons -- conflicts like the ones pitting Arabs against Israelis, Islamic factions against one another, Islamic fundamentalism against the West, Indians against Pakistanis, among others...
...civic crusades also carry danger. There are so many on behalf of so many causes, including relatively trivial ones, that their energy can become scattered. They threaten to be no longer civic but merely uncivil, dismissive of the rights of others...
Whenever Harvard did threaten, it self-destructed with errant passes and turnovers...