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Senelick himself succeeded in playing a septeginarian by chucking the canon of conventional old-man tricks and reinforcing his performance with large doses of pathos, building up a resistance in his audience so that he could administer the biggest dose of all in his death scene. He stunned the house by weaving, choking, and spitting out a farewell mouthful of blood...
...Second to correct some of the mistakes of liberalism which have damaged us in the past and of which we must now be aware. Let us not embrace that high canon of modern foreign policy which holds that it is better to continue the wrong policy than to admit error by rectifying...
...issued its own report calling for a "soft" approach that rejects pretrial court control over both the press and the police by means of contempt or any other form of "judicial censorship." Medina urged hands off the press, strictly voluntary codes of police silence, and only a tightened canon of ethics that would put the possible suspension or disbarment of talkative prosecutors and defense lawyers primarily in the hands of local bar associations - not courts. Where the press is concerned, Medina pointed out that the Supreme Court has repeatedly voided convictions for contempt by publication, holding that it must present...
...Little Give? Many lawyers applaud Medina's voluntary approach with its passionate defense of the First Amendment and its main reliance on a toughening of the A.B.A.'s Canon 20, which has rarely if ever been enforced since it was written in 1908 to prevent lawyers from publicly discussing pending cases. Unhappily for Medina's hopes, Canon 20 may be a frail reed: all efforts to reform it over the past decade have failed. Reform seems more likely by the imposition of court rules, even though Medina called it "unwise...
Even theologians who are willing to question the church's opposition to contraception and divorce stand firmly by tradition when it comes to abortion. Canon Victor Heylen of Belgium's Louvain University asks: "Once you pass into utilitarianism on abortion, where do you go? Why do you kill an unborn child after six months and not old people or not criminals or not just every second person in the world...