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...Guinier is doing very well for a man out of his element. I feel great empathy for him." Kilson said. "It's like taking a fish out of the water and putting him on Mt. Everest. He belongs at Harvard about as much as I belong on the moon...
Your so-called definition of Opus Dei as "a mystical network of Catholic laymen and clerics whose members combine spiritual discipline with temporal progress" is not only unfortunate, but it is also unfair to me personally since I belong to Opus Dei I have never aspired to combine this "cocktail" of the spiritual with temporal progress nor am I subjected to any kind of discipline or connected with any "mystical network.' Belonging to Opus Dei concerns only my private life and does not affect at all my opinions or my political activity for which I alone am responsible...
...mechanics of the move are less clear. A majority of city people now belong to the lower-income groups, and affluent suburbanites seem determined to keep them out-white or black. Report Watts and Free: "No set of public issues affecting the status of nonwhite minorities was more complex, controversial and farther from solution in mid-1972 than those determining where low-income families could live and work...
Israel has long had a radical movement, if a tiny one; probably no more than a thousand people belong at the present time. The biggest group, SIAH (a Hebrew acronym for New Israeli Left), is in favor of both Arab and Jewish states in what once was Palestine and is now Israel and the occupied territories. Matzpen, which has never had more than a hundred members, also believes in restoring Arab rights to at least part of Palestine. The spy arrests dramatized the existence of an element on the left that is opposed to the very existence of Israel. Editor...
Runaways. "Children do not belong to parents," says Edward Zigler, director of the U.S. Government Office of Child Development, and one of a growing breed of advocates who are concerned with children's rights. But the new children's advocates do not propose that the family give way entirely to the courts. "Courts can destroy relationships, but they cannot create them," observes Lawyer-Psychologist Joseph Goldstein of Yale Law School. He thus opposes legalistic custodial laws that assign orphaned children to their nearest blood relatives. He prefers laws that would "acknowledge the emotional realities that exist," allowing...