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...Faculty hasn't faced this issue," adds former HASCS director Lewis A. Law, who retired two years ago. "Speaking for myself, the Faculty administration basically doesn't really comprehend the magnitude of the problem...
...perhaps we have taken such matters too far. Perhaps the very principle of non-discrimination ought to be questioned. After all, cannot certain instances of discrimination be healthy? Do men really comprehend the challenges faced by women...
...open the American experience -- ipso facto a virtuous and desirable one -- to all comers, regardless of race, creed, color or, later on, gender. American culture was considered so good that no one should be denied a chance at it, and no one should be assumed unable to appreciate or comprehend...
...tragedy of the abortion debate is that it fails utterly to maintain itself as a constructive, compassionate discussion. Instead, it turns neighbors against each other, producing the spectacle of a shouting match between two sides who refuse to comprehend each other's moral position or even to recognize each other's capacity for moral choice. It is this polarization that we should do everything to avoid. And the same ingredients that make abortion a painfully divisive issue--religious sanction, sexual liberation, and personal autonomy--make homosexuality another potential focal point for national acrimony...
...what can we know about God? And if knowing God is possible, how do we comprehend him: by reason or only through an ecstatic epiphany of faith? These questions have tormented theologians and mystics in the 4,000-year history of monotheism. Their wildly varied answers are explored in an absorbing new book from Britain with a catchy title, a lode of learning and a challenging thesis. Whether or not one accepts the biblical teaching that men and women are made in God's image, argues the author of A History of God (Knopf; $27.50), it is clear the deity...