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Much to our surprise and contrary to what we printed in the August 9th issue of The Crimson, George Will has publicly supported the installation of lights at Wrigley Field. David J. Barron, a questionable baseball fan himself but an ardent Will opponent, now longs for the days of hot dogs smothered in mustard and baseball under the sun. He now joins Julio Varela in opposing lights. After all, he got his facts straight...
...surface of what seems to be Big Ideas, is at his funniest and saddest in Hapgood. This one is about physics, espionage, thriller novels, superpower paranoia, Star Wars technology, defectors, conflicts between work and homelife, and the possibilities for flimflammery in employing three sets of twins. The author's ardent anti-Communism seems to have evolved into a world- weariness reminiscent of John le Carre, in which the two camps of the cold war are morally equivalent players of a pointless, deadly game...
Liberal Protestants have long been among the most ardent supporters of a woman's right to abortion. Consider the Rev. Howard Moody of Manhattan's Judson Memorial Church. In 1967, more than five years before the U.S. Supreme Court struck down state laws that prohibited abortions, the Baptist pastor organized a referral and counseling service for women seeking the then illegal procedure. Moody was a minister in the American Baptist Convention, a confederation of congregations that was adopting its own high-profile prochoice position. In 1968 the denomination officially sanctioned abortions during the first three months of pregnancy...
...spoken repeatedly of a vaguely defined but supposedly powerful "opposition," of "antagonists" determined to "put a brake on perestroika." Addressing Soviet media officials last month, he warned, "Our antagonists are making their own plans and calculations" in the choice of delegates to the conference. "Our position is that ardent supporters of perestroika, active Communists, should be chosen as delegates . . . There must be no more quotas, as was the case in the past, specifying how many factory workers and farmers and how many women are to be chosen...
...marked by striking selflessness and self-sacrifice, by boundless kindness and charity. How many personal tragedies were inflicted on women by World War II! Millions of them never experienced love, family happiness or the joys of motherhood. Our women know the price of war and peace. They are ardent and convinced champions of peace...