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That struck the idealistic young Sherburne as all wrong and "destructive of a democratic organization." He decided to try to dig up money for N.S.A. elsewhere. He hired eight young staffers, told them he had just enough money to pay their salaries for two months, and sent them out to solicit funds so they could keep their jobs. Eventually, they managed to raise $400,000, including some $180,000 from the Office of Economic Opportunity, to coordinate a program for tutoring deprived children...
Miller's lawyers tried to dig deeper: they argued that the First Amendment protects card burning as "symbolic speech," and they urged the court to apply Justice Holmes's famous dictum that mere words cannot be punished unless they create "a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent." Miller & Co. insisted that burning a draft card endangers no one except the burner. The information on the card is already on file; moreover, another law makes it a crime to be in "willful nonpossession" of a draft...
...concludes that seminary teaching tends to be evangelically uninspiring and professionally im- practical. Bible study is more often than not "bibliolatry." Although much is said about making the church relevant, writes Feilding, "the greater part of the whole theological enterprise seems instead to be off on a vast archaeological dig, preoccupied with the long...
...plans are contingent on the study. No one at this time can estimate the cost of the extension. The study might find that it is impossible to dig deep enough for four levels. No date has been set for the completion of the study...
...quietly building Asia's strongest government, its second strongest economy (after Japan) and, despite 17 years of exile, an esprit that somehow continues to embody the tenuous dream of mainland recovery. To improve the government, Chiang recently called for "new policies" and "modernized governmental mechanisms." In an obvious dig at Peking's harangues about "revisionism," he is also pushing a "revision" of the Kuomintang, Taiwan's ruling body and one of Asia's oldest political parties. The revision is aimed at chopping out some of the deadwood and older party hacks and broadening Kuomintang membership...