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Christopher L. Goff, a third-year student, says, "People generally agree that the requirement is a failure. It's very boring. All it does is teach the Canon of Ethics, a set of rules required for the bar exam, Theoretically, it's a good idea to teach ethics, but I don't think the course was worth two credits...
...nearly seven years as general secretary of the All Africa Conference of Churches, the flamboyant Canon Burgess Carr often seemed more interested in politics than religion. The 42-year-old Anglican spoke often of liberation and less often of salvation, and declared: "We have had a British Jesus on our backs too long." Now the conference, which claims a constituency of 68 million non-Catholics, has reluctantly concluded that it has had the burly Carr on its back too long...
...Escoffier Cook Book (Crown; $6.95). Every book that Escoffier wrote is part of the theoretical and practical canon of gastronomy; this is the most useful...
...hierarchy decreed excommunication for those who divorce and then enter second marriages against church law. Ever since, those who divorce and remarry have been treated as "lepers and outcasts," says Bishop Cletus O'Donnell of Madison, Wis., the plain-speaking progressive who heads the bishops' canon law committee. The Baltimore decree "is doing us no good," he argues...
...loudest complaint made about Elizabeth Bishop's poetry is that there is not more of it. The Complete Poems (1969) filled only about 200 pages, with margins to spare. Geography III adds ten more poems to the Bishop canon, and there are more than a few poets who would burn their manuscripts to have written one of them...