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...would love to see the end of co-education at some point in people's lives," he said during a question and answer session following the speech...
...first cost-cutting moves, Jimmy Carter put the kibosh on all those Government-financed portraits that hang in the halls of Washington. They just weren't the sort of thing taxpayers should spend money on, said Jimmy. Last week the Commerce Department unveiled its answer to the President: a life-size painting of Elliot Richardson, done by the former Commerce Secretary himself. An inveterate doodler, Richardson, who also served as Attorney General in the Richard Nixon administration until the infamous Saturday Night Massacre, loaded his self-portrait with symbolism. He is painted into a corner, Richardson pointed...
Seib raises an important question, and the Post's willingness to let him have his say isn't a sufficient answer. Brash Ben Bradlee is characteristically unfazed: "If the social behavior of as powerful a man on the Washington scene as Jordan isn't reportable," he says, "I've got to go back to school." This response, of course, does not address the accuracy of the Post's reporting...
...what about Reform Judaism, the liberal branch created to free the Jews from the rigidities of Orthodoxy without stripping away their faith? Reines teaches at a Reform seminary, Cincinnati's Hebrew Union College. Yet he considers Reform Judaism to be only a halfhearted effort at liberalism. The answer, he insists, is "polydoxy," a radically open-ended faith with only one absolute: that there are no absolutes. At the first national meeting of polydox Jews in St. Louis last week, Reines proposed the creation of a Polydox Jewish Confederation to unite the radicals...
...short, the proposed code is a significant improvement on existing Federal criminal law but does not include all the improvements that some of us would like. The issue, therefore, is whether to oppose it now in the hope that a more liberal version will be produced. The answer depends on whether one thinks public opinion is moving in a more or less liberal direction on issues of criminal law. To me, the signs of growing illiberalism are plain, so I think we should settle for the improvements in the draft code as the best imaginable for the indefinite future. Others...