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...does to your marriage, not what it does to your oath taking. To take such an important aspect of yourself and give it to someone else is to live the biggest lie imaginable, whether or not it's repeated in court. Lately there's been a terrible tendency to dismiss adultery lightly if no official lying is involved. Henry Hyde describes a long affair with a married mother of three as a youthful indiscretion (he was 41); Dan Burton says his affair with a state employee and the secret child it produced is O.K. because he pays child support; Helen...
Private citizens are no better: we dismiss politicians who would deign to invoke spiritual belief in the public arena (or in a Undergraduate Council election), yet, if survey data is accurate, we too are not above putting in a request to a higher power...
...Docket Committee, made up of three Faculty members, may either dismiss Berkowitz's petition or convene an ad hoc grievance panel to consider his complaint...
...might be tempted to dismiss this project as a glib summary of a century in boxed-set form--yet another cynical ploy by the record companies. But the 100 neat and tidy two-CD packets of the Great Pianists are a noble exception: truly great indeed...
...never been in a Palestinian village when the Israeli army comes to destory the house of suspected terrorist, we understand that these incidents are difficult, even intolerable, for Plestinians. These are the concerns that they bring to the bargaining table, and we do not attempt to dismiss them...