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Over the past year an intensive debate about secularization has raged within the ranks of Roman Catholicism. Liberals say the church should plunge more deeply into social problems; conservatives contend such involvement has already gone too far. Late last week Pope John Paul, summing up an extraordinary synod of bishops in a modern Vatican meeting hall, called for a careful balance of both views. The church is the "mystical body of Christ," he said, thus emphasizing its spiritual quality, but it is simultaneously "at the service of the world...
...suit that will go to trial this week in Santa Barbara, Calif., Belli says that he will contend that the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, the defendant, knew that cigarette smoking was addictive long before the Surgeon General's report but failed to inform consumers of the risk. He represents the family of John M. Galbraith, an insurance-company executive who died of lung cancer in 1982 at the age of 69, after 50 years of smoking...
...Liberals contend that because it is 'coercive,' a national service is anti-democratic and objectionable. They'd rather we just paid our taxes conscientiously and let Washington or the state governments carry out our business, make no requests of our time, and leave us with our civil liberties. Such a condition is alienating and actually anti-democratic. For democracy to be real, we must have meaningful control over policy. That means more than an annual vote for candidates who often manipulate us through the media. It means control over how issues are articulated and worked into agendas and some direct...
Stricker was the only Crimson harrier to run well as the rest of the team--which was expected to contend for the team title--ran what Harvard Coach Ed Sheehan called "as bad a race as they could have had" and finished fifth in the 55-team field...
Besides having to contend with the tough competition that regional meets always bring, Harvard also had to face the harsh Pennsylvania weather--35-degree temperatures, snow mixed with sleet--as well as the icy and swampish condition of the course...