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That hill-country heehaw is no longer a laughing matter. After a series of messy political scandals, restive Texans turned out last week for the state primary in record numbers and shook the conservative Democratic establishment from top to bottom. When the spring cleaning was over, the discard pile included Governor Preston Smith, Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes, 78 state legislators and scores of other veteran local officeholders...
...Unless there is immediate compliance we will be obliged to ask for a court order directing the defendants to show cause why they should not be held in contempt and put under sanctions compelling compliance with the order." Steiner said, "To dismiss the suit would be to discard one of the best hopes for putting an orderly end to the unlawful occupation...
...analytical skills. The author has attempted to show how currents of Western and traditional Chinese thought clashed in Liang's mind. Liang did not merely substitute Western ideas for those already present in the Chinese tradition. Liang would accept a particular Western idea, but he was perfectly willing to discard that idea if he found an element in Chinese tradition that was more meaningful...
There are short-term solutions. A state can discard a primary as easily as it sets one up; candidates could come to some agreement to limit the amount of campaigning they do. With the partial exception of Canada, the U.S. is the only Western country that opens party nominations to mass participation. The problem is how far to carry it and how to control it. Says Donald Matthew of the Brookings Institution, who is studying the President-making process: "We Americans frequently assume that the way we do things is the natural way and that everyone else is nuts...
Pope Paul VI shows no sign of bending his definition of religious life to accommodate the new nuns. In an exhortation to sisters promulgated last summer, the Pontiff warned against deviations from "the essential commitments" of religious life. Last month the Vatican explicitly forbade nuns to discard "distinctive religious garb" for secular dress. Besides the Pope and many of the all-male hierarchy, some sisters are openly opposed to what they consider the excesses of renewal. About 120 of them have organized their views in a group called Consortium Perfectae Caritatis (Association of Perfect Charity). Nevertheless, the new nuns...