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...easily, the sociological discussion above or the particular onus of Jewish self-preservation can cloud one of the foremost reasons for intermarriage. It's easy to oppose intermarriage when you're just looking at statistics, almost impossible when you examine each case individually. Most mixed couples invoke love to counter those who disapprove of their marriages. Why should anyone stand in the way of a relationship that satisfies the two parties involved? Our society is surely libertarian enough to permit and even applaud intermarriage on that basis alone...
Thus, we should not be so surprised that the logic is often haphazardly misapplied, since the reasons for the conviction have long been lost in a cloud of passionate political slogans...
BUREAUS: Suzanne Davis (Director of Administration) Chief Political Correspondent: Michael Kramer Washington Contributing Editors: Stanley W. Cloud, Hugh Sidey Senior Correspondents: David Aikman, Jonathan Beaty, Sandra Burton, Barry Hillenbrand, J. Madeleine Nash, Frederick Ungeheuer, Bruce van Voorst, Jack E. White Washington: Dan Goodgame, Ann Blackman, Margaret Carlson, James Carney, Michael Duffy, Ted Gup, Julie Johnson, J.F.O. McAllister, Jay Peterzell, Elaine Shannon, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver, Adam Zagorin, Melissa August New York: Janice C. Simpson, Edward Barnes Boston: Sam Allis Chicago: Jon D. Hull, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: William McWhirter Atlanta: Michael Riley Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Cathy Booth Los Angeles: Jordan...
...search. Albert Einstein showed in his general theory of relativity that the gravity from a star will bend rays of light that pass nearby. In principle, he said, a star could act as a lens, focusing and brightening the light of another star directly behind it. If a cloud of small stars or big planets really is orbiting the Milky Way, some of them should occasionally pass in front of stars in the next galaxy over -- the Large Magellanic Cloud. If you watched this galaxy very carefully for a year or two, you might sometimes see a star getting inexplicably...
BUREAUS: Suzanne Davis (Director of Administration) Chief Political Correspondent: Michael Kramer Washington Contributing Editors: Stanley W. Cloud, Hugh Sidey Senior Correspondents: David Aikman, Jonathan Beaty, Sandra Burton, Barry Hillenbrand, J. Madeleine Nash, Frederick Ungeheuer, Bruce van Voorst, Jack E. White Washington: Dan Goodgame, Ann Blackman, Margaret Carlson, James Carney, Michael Duffy, Ted Gup, Julie Johnson, J.F.O. McAllister, Jay Peterzell, Elaine Shannon, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver, Adam Zagorin, Melissa August New York: Janice C. Simpson, Edward Barnes Boston: Sam Allis Chicago: Jon D. Hull, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: William McWhirter Atlanta: Michael Riley Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Cathy Booth Los Angeles: Jordan...