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...Radcliffe Institute, with its library and Fellows, is of established importance in the development of our sense of a women's culture. Our history is an affirmation of our birthright; our culture is the base from which we build. The work that the scholars and artists of the Radcliffe Institute are doing is and should continue to be supported and funded by women. Money from Radcliffe's endowment pays for women to study and develop our culture. As we support them, we grow ourselves...
...member of BIRTHRIGHT, a prolife, alternative-to-abortion group, I was appalled to read of the refusal to baptize Nathaniel Morreale because his mother supported the establishment of an abortion-information clinic. Father Roussin and Monsignor Meehan have failed to grasp the basic moral premise of the prolife philosophy: the child, born or unborn, should never be discriminated against for the sins or misfortunes of his parents. For example, a fetus should not be punished by murder because his father was a rapist or his mother was pregnant out of wedlock. The fetus, and by extension the infant, is always...
SOME PEOPLE HAVE lofty positions handed to them as part of their birthright. Others have to push aside barriers to be successful, keeping stiff upper lips through discouraging moments and elbowing their way through the tiniest openings. Unfortunately both of these types usually reach their promised lands at the expense of their humanity...
...pull him from a circle in a tug-of-war with the governor's ambitious widow. As a result, The Caucasian Chalk Circle has a traditional, tender, open quality that Brecht rarely allowed himself, and an archetypal quality that makes its hope seem universal, the natural birthright, sold again and again but somehow always recovered, of all the people of a constantly changing world...
Greece. The cradle of democracy exercised its birthright last week-end, voting by a 90 per cent majority to abolish the monarchy and replace it with a constitutional republic. Sound progressive...