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...asked. "What honorable father and parent would not give their all to protect the innocence of their children?" In 1953 authorities tried to root out the fathers and rescue the children, but after a couple of years of costly court cases and a tide of public opinion in favor of keeping families together--no matter how unconventional--the two worlds essentially agreed to ignore each other...
...This stipulation for rare abortions indicates a moral judgment. This phrase was inserted to appeal to voters who support abortion rights, while still harboring some moral doubts regarding the procedure. According to a 2007 Gallup Poll, only 26 percent of Americans favor legalized abortion in all circumstances, while 55 percent favor legalized abortion in limited circumstances. Most Americans seem to take a middle ground approach to abortion rights, favoring its legality in limited circumstances. This is consistent with the moral ambiguity that typically surrounds the issue for the majority of people...
...Both professors were in favor of it,” Toor said. In fact, the professor of the computer science course, David J. Malan, wrote a letter to the Ad Board arguing that because Ec1010a and CS 50 are “gateway courses,” not allowing simultaneous enrollment can “impede one’s potential advancement to higher-level courses...
...HARVARD 7, BROWN 3After falling into a 3-0 hole early in the second game of Saturday’s doubleheader, the Bears battled back to force a tie in the top of the sixth inning.But the Crimson shifted the momentum back in its favor in the bottom of the seventh when Kramer came to the plate with runners on first and second. Kramer ripped a Peter Moskal offering down the right field line, plating senior second baseman Taylor Meehan to give Harvard a 4-3 lead.With cleanup hitter Tom Stack-Babich sidelined with an injury, Kramer has excelled...
Benedict pointedly called it a "scandal" that a majority of us favor even limited legalized abortion. Yet we're not the Da Vinci Code heretics the Vatican suspects. We look instead to the Boccaccio Code, especially in the wake of the abuse crisis. We've learned to conform to the Catholic faith instead of the Catholic hierarchy. And if the Pope's visit and its aftermath indicate anything, it's that we aren't likely to change that stance until the church, with deeper structural and doctrinal reform, changes its own. As the Pope returns to Rome, a common question...