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...next year's club members agree to abandon the all-male policy, the Fly Club would be the first of Harvard's nine final clubs...
...making the moral issue of homosexuality less susceptible to polarization. This involves the way we frame the question. We should not ask, is homosexuality right or wrong? We should ask, what are the possibilities and the costs of gay relationships? This doesn't mean that we should abandon moral judgment and resort to a tally sheet of pros and cons. It does mean that we should let go of moral certainty and embrace moral ambivalence. Ambivalence. after all, describes the vast majority of us. Moral ambivalence is more faithful to reality...
...integrity of each certifying agent would ensure that its doctors were sufficiently competent and qualified. If the certification process were to become corrupt, doctors would abandon the certifying agent in favor of a another. Today, the government as a certifying agent is bound by no such constraints of integrity...
...Inferno" tells the tale of a burning disco tower. The Trammps' 1977 hit is filled with jazzy riffs, and raging base lines of which even Dante would approve. "Disco Inferno" takes the listener through a world of mythical disco beasts and three-headed gyrating monsters. Just remember the warning: Abandon all hope, all ye who enter into this steamy disco inferno...
KARL HENDRICKS TRIO Sings About Misery and Women CD/LP (Fiasco) Karl Hendricks' sadnesses are our reward. Miserable he may be, but he's not about to abandon his calling: that of writing spiffily memorable rock tunes, enough of them to drag us out of our grunge-induced lethargy up to the heights of Punk Rock Simplicity Mountain (which is where Nirvana thought they were leading us in the first place, right?). Most of Karl's songs have a crunchy college-rock beat (like Superchunk) though a few of the best, like "Romantic Stories from the War," are slow dissections...