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For looming over the industry is yet another threat, this one from Washington, where FDA chief David Kessler is considering a series of regulations on tobacco advertising and tobacco's availability to teenagers. The FDA proposal, which would ban cigarette-vending machines, free samples, mail-order sales, and outdoor advertising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOBACCO BLUES | 3/11/1996 | See Source »

The staff feels that such colorful language is inappropriate for the ed page. However, it is such cowardice that allows men like Forbes to slither into public office. The staff should learn from the tradition of H.L. Mencken, one of the most famous American journalists. On the occasion of William...

Author: By David W. Brown, | Title: Mock Politicians | 2/7/1996 | See Source »

"Though they say it is reconciliation, the hidden agenda is to legitimize retroactively a cause for which Harvard alumni fought against. The University associated with the Northern cause, including Oliver Wendell Homes Jr., and it is an insult to the memory of these people to memorialize the men against whom...

Author: By Justin C. Danilewtiz, | Title: Memorial Fans Flames of Smoldering Controversy | 1/10/1996 | See Source »

In summary, Ben-Shachar is apparently terrified that speech will be used to "incite the public to violent measures against the government." But in the words of Oliver Wendell Holmes, "every idea is an incitement." Only a person with delusions of godhood would claim to be able to determine what...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ben-Shachar Misreads Liberty | 12/11/1995 | See Source »

Oliver Wendell Holmes, who knew intelligence when he saw it, judged Franklin Roosevelt "a second-class intellect, but a first-class temperament." Born and educated as an aristocrat, F.D.R. had polio and needed a wheelchair for most of his adult life. Yet, far from becoming a self-pitying wretch, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SQUARE PEGS IN THE OVAL OFFICE? | 10/2/1995 | See Source »

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