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...CCSR's response to the ACSR's recommendations proved to be a bitter disappointment to myself and the other student members on the Committee. The CCSR refused to commit itself to the exclusive use of the Sullivan Principles--or any other fixed or explicit set of principles--as the standard to rate corporate behavior. It acknowledged that indefinitely long dialogue with companies was "not a satisfactory course of action." Yet it avoided establishing any definite deadlines on such dialogue. In response to the ACSR's most minimal recommendation--for the use of ethical criteria in investment decisions--the CCSR indicated...
...widespread Christian belief that homosexual acts are sinful is based on explicit statements in the Bible, including the passage from Leviticus: "If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination." But the Metropolitan Community Church teaches that homosexuality is "a gift from God" and that there is nothing immoral about gay relationships. The church also conducts rites of "holy union" for gay couples, as well as "holy matrimony" for heterosexual couples...
...students--a well-reasoned political bite to complement its bureaucratic efficiency. To maintain a professional air and earn respect, the government has to break out of the routine it adopted on this year's weighty issues: listen to an explanation of a controversial issue by a student with an explicit, usually anti-Harvard view of the subject: entertain debate for several minutes, including several complaints about the lack of a better procedure: then support the view put forth by the student by passing a resolution, an uninformed endorsement carrying little weight. It must address such issues better if it hopes...
...earnestness, graphically express Reagan's strong views. He attacks Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down state laws prohibiting abortion. Since then, the President says, "more than 15 million unborn children have had their lives snuffed out by legalized abortions." Turning almost harrowingly explicit, Reagan writes: "The real question today is not when human life begins, but, What is the value of human life?The abortionist who reassembles the arms and legs of a tiny baby to make sure all its parts have been torn from its mother's body can hardly doubt...
...Concerto Barocco (1941) and The Four Temperaments (1946), Balanchine reveled in the joy of pure movement, unencumbered by sets, costumes or plot. "Swan Lake is a bore," he declared. For Balanchine, dance was really about motion, not the Wilis; the choreographer's intent, he felt, should be made explicit without panoply or program notes. "The curtain should just go up," he said, "and if the spectators understand what's going on, it's good...