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...College does not treat first-year students like full-fledged members of the Harvard community. If it did, then it would not subject them to the unfair and arcane policies of the Freshman Dean’s Office...
That Roach, who repaid the money she pilfered, escaped prison seemed unfair to some, given that federal guidelines forbid such clemencies in crimes committed by people under the influence of alcohol and drugs. And how many denizens of our consumer culture can now claim in court that they stole because they couldn't help themselves? "Hundreds, if not thousands," prosecutor Joel Levin argued in court...
...sharing many of the same issues, the race may well come down to issues of character. And Hahn has targeted that issue head on, reminding voters that Villaraigosa lobbied on behalf of a convicted drug-dealer who was later pardoned by Clinton. Villaraigosa has charged that the ads are unfair, but Hahn says that they are accurate and he points out the first person to launch attack ads in this campaign was Villaraigosa. They've really gotten under Villaraigosa's skin, but they accurately represent what happened. He did write the letter (for the pardon) and he got campaign contributions...
...more important, they argued, to remember that public support was crucial to the effectiveness of a national policy on drugs. If a lot of people thought the government's policy was cruel and unfair, the government needed to make a better case for its position, or else drop its opposition to experimental marijuana use for humanitarian purposes. Walters' position today, as it was then, says a source familiar with his thinking, is that "drug policy, if properly formulated, needs to be humane and responsible to be effective." Since polls show that many Americans support the use of medical marijuana, Walters...
...drugs. Like monoclonal antibodies before them, these compounds, which keep tumors from growing their own blood supplies, were briefly touted as magic one-shot cancer cures--although Folkman, who pioneered the field in the 1970s, was always circumspect about making premature claims. "I think the antiangiogenesis field got some unfair negative publicity," says Saltz. "Our expectations were too high, but there is a lot of brilliant science behind...