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However, the accusations of rudeness being made against the owners of cellular telephones are often unfair. "They're just showing off," is the charge hurled at people who use their cell phones to do what everybody else is legitimately doing--talking on the bus, making calls from the sidewalk, chatting while driving a car. An expensive telephone might be considered a status symbol--but so are a lot of other things that are less obviously useful yet don't arouse public ire. It should be recognized that the cell phone is just a tool. What determines rudeness...
...these institutions. A professor of mine told me that he believed whenever anyone at Harvard feels any sort of threat from change, he or she (usually he) hides behind the safeguard of tradition. Students can't stand taking final exams after winter recess? All-male, exclusive Final Clubs are unfair and stupid? Sorry, it's tradition...
...year-old son, I walked into a welfare office. I was self-employed, receiving no child support, and was seeking assistance for a few months until business picked up. I was denied benefits because I owned a car worth $5,000. At the time, I felt the decision was unfair, but I came to be thankful because it made me fight harder to survive. States need to get tough to break the cycle of welfare, or the problem will never go away. Wisconsin's rule requiring recipients to work enables people to be contributors to society. TINA M. CAPARELLA Cameron...
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Many mainstream doctors aren't so sure, dismissing Weil as more huckster than healer. While this is almost certainly unfair, it's also true that for much of his life he has indeed had a perfect-pitch sense of how to attract attention to himself...