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...between the rule of law and the rule of morality is important and eternally debatable. But in the realm of convention, the court has laid bare the possibility of England wresting away Canada's control of her own destiny. Since the constitutional debate is highly politicized, Canadian politicians must absorb some blame for the plausibility of such an occurence. But the British parliament should abide by Trudeau's decision, whether or not he manages to attract provincial consent. England out of Canada...
...ever seen her jog. She has no time for tennis. And she certainly does not play baseball, soccer, basketball or any of the other sweaty sports that absorb millions of Americans. "Watching people on the street is my thing," says Clothes Designer Norma Kamali...
...another departure from present policy, the proposed guidelines would urge faculty members to guard against "conflicts of commitment"-outside activities that absorb too much of a professor's academic time or energy-in addition to the traditional financial conflicts of interest stressed by existing guidelines...
Already faced with severe cash shortages, the states are less sanguine about being able to absorb a second round of cuts in social services. All but unanimously, officials argue that the slashes will remove the safety net from many whom the President would accept as being "truly needy." Admits Illinois' Mandeville...
...this "new emotion" sounds like the tactile knowledge of what being alive now, thanks to science and space probes, means: sitting on a crowded planet that is moving very fast. In such a situation, Mooney's narrative suggests, everything that happens matters to everyone. But who can absorb, much less report, everything? The author sometimes reaches for cosmic consciousness and produces more comedy than insights: "On one of the fishing boats in the cove, a young down-islander discovered he had the wrong-size replacement batteries for his transistor and flung them angrily into the water; they sank forty...