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...DISSENT: Respect Freedom of Conscience...
...almost goes without saying that the mere addition of pasties and G-strings is hardly a well-documented method for keeping out the riff-raff. To believe otherwise, as Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in his dissent, "is nothing short of a titanic surrender to the implausible." Even the plurality opinion expressed similar skepticism. Nevertheless, the court upheld the ordinance on the grounds that the city did not necessarily need to prove a correlation between nude dancing and crime. It needed only to show that the ordinance would somehow further the city's interest in controlling such negative effects, rather...
Whom will the College of Cardinals elect to follow this extraordinary Pope? Not likely an American. U.S. Catholicism is seen as out of step with Rome--too worldly, too liberal, too full of dissent and disobedience. Forty percent of the Cardinals who will elect the next Pope are from developing nations, and there has been speculation that the next Pope could come from the growing ranks of African or Latin American bishops. But don't count on it. Says Father Richard McBrien, former chairman of the department of theology at Notre Dame: "The next Pope will be an Italian Cardinal...
Last year, after making its way through the nation's appeals courts, the argument over FDA regulation of tobacco landed in the Supreme Court. Tuesday's ruling, which was accompanied by Stephen Breyer's scathing dissent, pushes tobacco back into congressional hands. Anti-smoking forces worry that the Court's decision could weaken the tobacco industry's newfound resolve to voluntarily enhance warning labels on cigarettes and step up efforts to keep minors from smoking. But while Tuesday's ruling is certainly a victory for tobacco - sending Philip Morris's stock through the roof - the triumph could be short-lived...
...meeting last night during which the Undergraduate Council passed five bills with little dissent, the only real debate was over the success or failure of the council's Saturday night dance in honor of St. Patrick's Day and Spirit Week...