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Many male administrators now state that women should be given such a leave. But the same administrators looked upon paternity leave as absurd. "But men can't breast-feed," Walter J. Leonard, assistant to the President and the University's chief affirmative action coordinator, said. "Sure, if any of our professors rapes a girl, we will insist that he help support the child," was the joking response of William L. Brice, vice-dean and equal employment officer at the Law School...
...workers inefficiently drive to their jobs-most of them sans passengers). Common sense, then, would dictate new attention-and funding-for railroads, buses and subways. Instead, the House of Representatives has just refused to allow new funds for mass transit. Meanwhile, as fuel supplies dwindle, new appliances are creating absurd demands. Among other concerned legislators, Senator Henry Jackson concludes: "We need to ask whether we must despoil the hills in Appalachia to air-condition sealed-glass towers in New York. We need to ask whether we must put ourselves in hock to Middle East sheikdoms to keep roads clogged with...
...Nonetheless, that illogical meal remains the most actively sought of all contemporary national goals. (On the other hand, the parvenu naturalists attack the machine as a malignant monster - though, if pollution is ever to be overcome, it will not be by nature but by technology.) The list of equally absurd goals remains endless. After years of generously funded studies, pundits announce what the canny observer has concluded without aid: that airports have grown less efficient, for example, or that the poor are more victimized by crime than the middle class. Specialization, abstraction and rhetorical overkill - all have made native...
...another "in trust and gratitude" in the spring of 1969. They were married again in January 1972 by "formalizing" their vows in a Danbury, Conn., prison cell. When TIME reported last week that they were about to be wed, Berrigan wasted no time denying the story as "absurd and untrue" on the ground that they were already married. Nonetheless, two days after his denial, the couple were legally wed in Montclair, N.J., by the Rev. Paul Mayer, an ex-monk who is also married...
...claim that no members of the Class of 1975 were assigned to Harvard Houses not among their five choices is absurd. We at Redcliffe remember the sad tales of many women in the Class of 1975 faced with an assignment to one of the low-ratio Harvard Houses without having cited it as a choice, a phenomenon carried into this year as well...