Word: corrections
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When possibly scandalous news concerning a public official comes to light, controversy is all but inevitable. When the charges are made without any evidence proving them correct, but simply based on the lack of evidence conclusively proving them false (as is the case with the current Doonesbury) such controversy is bound to be inflamed...
Catholics thus may believe the teachings of the Church infallible in the moral realm; we may strongly believe our moral judgments correct; we may say "I think you should do this"; but we can never say "I know that you are an evil person." Our knowledge of our fallibility of judgment precludes such stridency...
...fact that sex is used otherwise does not mean that using it otherwise conforms to the correct definition...
...case of interethnic conflict one can cite a case of cooperation. Unlike school boards in San Francisco and Berkeley, the Oakland school board rejected Houghton Mifflin textbooks that it considered racist and sexist. Though the local press and the New York Times presented the textbook opponents as raving, politically correct Afrocentrics, one of the most eloquent speeches opposing the textbook adoption was made by a Chinese American...
Apparently, Starr was correct...