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...dedication to BRYE and PBHA was not a passing whim. After directing BRYE his sophomore year, Joe has risen the ranks of PBHA leadership and currently serves as the organization's president. The giving guy from my first-year dorm now heads one of our largest student organizations. His caring nature now impacts the hundreds of Harvard students involved in PBHA and the thousands of Boston and Cambridge community members who benefit from PBHA programs...
Such a vision is nothing more than an atavistic embrace of law as the institutionalization of whim. It leads to a view of human activity repugnant to the one held out by our Constitution and abhorrent to any conception of dignity. In downgrading men and women to the playthings of dictatorial caprice, it denies us our free will. Ten years after the Berlin Wall collapsed, we might pause to consider whether a vision like that should stand...
...began on a whim...
...work himself into a lather of pessimism and rage at environmental abuses, yet he is personally content, and he has good reason. His Wyoming house, about a mile from where we are fishing, is one of his three residences. The other two are on the California coast. On a whim, he can board a plane to British Columbia in search of brown trout and steelheads. Having accumulated a fortune, "I do what I want to do," he says. He wishes the same for his employees, who often refer to his "Let my people go surfing" speech, in which he told...
Indeed between all the cards currently in his wallet, Rodney says he has more than $8,000 in available credit--enough to buy a used car or a brand new wardrobe on a whim...