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...defendant called it a bum rap. Yes, he had fondled the buttocks of a woman, without her consent, on a rush-hour New York subway car. But no, it could not be considered sexual abuse. His argument: state legal precedent on sexual abuse lists "breast" and "genital areas" as private parts, but excludes the buttocks...
...that if a Mike Wallace interview now takes place with only one instead of two cameras, Wallace can be photographed afterward asking the same questions again or reacting angrily, moodily or laughingly-so long as these reverses are "made in the presence of the interviewee" or with his consent...
Princeton: Student Advice, Administrative Consent...
...Basilica in Rome on July 18, 1870, the bishops of the First Vatican Council adopted a decree that would alter Christian history. A Pope, they declared, is infallible when he defines doctrines of faith or morals ex cathedra (from his throne) and such dicta are "irreformable" and require no "consent of the church." The bishops' lopsided 533-to-2 vote that day masked a deep division in the council and throughout the church. The immediate repercussions included the schism of "Old Catholics" and a wave of antichurch laws in Germany. Though scholars differ over where infallibility applies, the power...
...nolo contendere plea to two misdemeanor counts against Helms for failing to testify fully before a Senate committee four years ago, Bell at that moment was informing President Carter of his "just and fair disposition" of the case. Confronted with a virtual fait accompli, Carter hastily gave Bell his consent, and the four-year-old Helms investigation came to an abrupt...