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...Forbidden Words...
...what was once known as polite conversation raises some unanswered linguistic questions. Which, really, is the rose, and which the other name? Is "lovemaking" a euphemism for the four-letter word that describes copulation? Or is this blunt Anglo-Saxonism a dysphemism for making love? Are the old forbidden obscenities really the crude bedrock on which softer and shyer expressions have been built? Or are they simply coarser ways of expressing physical actions and parts of the human anatomy that are more accurately described in less explicit terms? It remains to be seen whether the so-called forbidden words will...
...might argue that it must be serious, since it is forbidden. But I would prefer merely to say that it is serious because it is the major commitment of the best undergraduates at Harvard. No one can pretend to have a clear vision of what happened two weeks ago if he fails to realize that the brightest and most creative people at Harvard were in University Hall at 5 a.m. Thursday morning...
...witnesses may not be present at a grand-jury proceeding. They are sometimes allowed at an inquest; yet they are not normally permitted to raise objections to the testimony, nor do they have the right to cross-examine witnesses. Thus, the inquest testimony can range widely, and counsel is forbidden to challenge any allegations that are made, no matter how farfetched. Kennedy's lawyers claim, however, that a recent Supreme Court decision gives them this prerogative in any hearing aimed at "exposing violations of criminal law by specific individuals...
...companies have been forced to alter their corporate structures. Some 400 investor-owned insurance companies, including nearly all the big ones, have turned themselves into subsidiaries of newly created holding companies during the past few years. These are free to invest and diversify in ways that insurers have been forbidden to do directly...