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Viable Sperm. Protestant theologians, even as they continue to affirm the essential sacredness of life, argue that the inflexible Catholic opposition is bad morality based on bad biology. Says Episcopal Priest Lester Kinsolving of San Francisco: "The contention that the fetus, being viable, is to be regarded as a human being is not only specious but begs the consideration that the sperm is also viable." Not even the most austere Catholic moralist, he points out, suggests that the loss of semen through nocturnal emission represents the taking of life. German Protestant Theologian Joachim Beckmann concedes that the embryo is alive...
...faculty meeting, the first resolution offered was to "re-affirm grading." That this was immediately tabled does not mean that the Columbia faculty objects to the granting of grades. The faculty members simply felt no obligation to re-affirm something they had never challenged. Eager to move on to the terse but powerful request to the Administration to withhold class ranks, they quickly shelved the all-A's proposal as well...
...years. For Convict George McChan, 34, it seemed like the end of the line. Suddenly, all the legal breaks went McChan's way. Out went his indictment, because Maryland's top court voided a requirement that grand jurors-including the grand jurors that indicted him-affirm belief in God. The same fate has befallen several hundred other indictments; in many cases the result has been a new indictment and a retrial. But a retrial of McChan was out, because the Supreme Court's new confession rules barred the key evidence against him. To be sure, McChan...
...compared the agitators with "the Nazi students whom I saw in the 1930s harassing deans, hounding professors and their families." The senate finally voted 795 to 28 to deplore the use of external police "except in extreme emergency" but to urge an immediate end of the strike and "to affirm our confidence in the chancellor's leadership...
...from dissolving doubts, the Report and the ensuing debate have magnified them. One Commission member, Senator Russell, and one key witness, Governor Connally, have publicly joined the ranks of the doubters. The theory behind the Report's conclusions, they affirm, is implausible given the evidence available. All that can be said now for the Report is that no concrete evidence points to the existence of a second sniper; but neither has any internally consistent theory yet been presented to explain how Oswald alone killed Kennedy...