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Perhaps most influential in giving more Americans exposure to each other is the increasingly nationwide (and international) character of business. In Atlanta, 410 of the U.S.'s 500 largest corporations have branch offices. The local manager, and many employees, of a big-company branch in practically any city may come from Ohio or Oregon, have just finished a five-year tour in New York or have just returned from a refresher course at the head office in Chicago or-more frequently-a spin around the company's foreign plants. Though a Seattle citizen still prides himself...
...subject, said Medina, his committee will differ sharply with the A.B.A.'s pretrial proposals on the ground that American judges lack power to discipline police and news media until a case comes to trial. For one thing, the Constitution's separation of governmental powers limits the judicial branch in controlling police, who belong to the executive branch. For another, the First Amendment precludes "direct controls of the news media by a governmental scheme of legislation or judicial regulation." The solution, argues Medina, is for "the judicial establishment to put its own house in order...
...subtle ways of Catholicism's capital and to study under some of the church's best minds: English Jesuit Frederick Copleston, a distinguished historian of philosophy, or German Redemptorist Bernard Haring, generally considered Catholicism's top moral theologian, who teaches at the Academia Alfonsiana (a branch of the Lateran). Otherwise, the training is not much better-and in some ways worse -than what they would receive back home. While U.S. seminaries have all but abandoned Latin for lectures and brought their curriculums closer to those of secular liberal-arts colleges, the courses at Roman universities are still...
...intended to be frozen" and "must grow to meet new situations." In fact, as Rabbi Klein points out, Halakah has been significantly modified over the centuries, by such sages as Maimonides and Joseph Karo, in order to adapt the written Talmud to the requirements of everyday life. The Conservative branch of Judaism considers Halakah of divine origin but believes in adapting it to the times by a less restrictive interpretation of custom. The Reform Jews go considerably farther, believe that it is the spirit rather than the letter of the law that matters and argue briskly that Halakah...
Cool on Contempt. Police, prosecutors and other members of the legal branch who violated the rules would be subject to contempt proceedings before whatever court was handling the case. While a jury trial is in progress, urged the committee, the court should also hold in contempt any person who makes an out-of-court public statement that is "reasonably calculated to affect the outcome of the trial and seriously threatens to have such an effect...