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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...believe that contemporary understandings may in some instances reflect a moral or ethical perspective more relevant than that of an older world view. For me, the image of the Creator which I believe is present in each person I deal with takes precedence over the legal strictures. I cannot bring myself to believe that God abhors, a priori, some 10 percent of the human race--or that it is a religious duty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reaffirming Personhood Over Jewish Legal Strictures | 5/21/1986 | See Source »

...Open University. I must point out that I am myself a member of the Open University, yet I have not closed my eyes to the hypocrisies of this organization. When the shanties were built, I sought permission to purchase materials and to build a shanty in order to bring members of my dormitory into the divestment movement. Permission was granted and I was welcomed into the shantytown with a list of principles the Open University agreed to abide by. The "Principles of Community" enumerated the personal and communal rights and ethics of the Open University members. It is these principles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shanties | 5/21/1986 | See Source »

...hung with virtuoso variations of dresses and skirts cut from polyester satin and jersey, colored pale red, musky gold and worn white, in a pattern transferred directly from photos of rusted iron. "I'm neither anti-Western nor pro-Eastern," Mori explains. "I'm interested in making clothes that bring out the originality of the individual." His dresses are unemphatic tokens of elegance, breezy bits of hotshot craftsmanship with a certain sophistication of spirit that sets him apart from most of his contemporaries. "I wouldn't want to tell people how to wear clothes," he cautions. "Clothes are like little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Showroom At the Top | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

Government officials blamed both attacks on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the most radical of the insurgent factions fighting to establish an independent state in the northern and eastern parts of the country. The two bombings suggest that the militant Tamil insurgents are willing to bring the fighting to the capital, a significant escalation of the bitter three-year civil war in which more than 3,000 people have been killed. "These attacks," said an official of the National Security Ministry on TV following the second bombing, "indicate the group is no longer interested in a peaceful settlement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sri Lanka the Terror Strikes Home | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

...also help. Although an army of lobbyists will be following the bill closely, so too will many average taxpayers. On June 2 the Senate will begin allowing debates to be televised for the first time. Majority Leader Dole, who hopes to establish himself as a presidential contender, intends to bring the tax bill up that day, "right after the prayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wow! Real Tax Reform! | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

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