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...that the immediate furor over randomization has died down, what remains to be resolved? Many students have not given up the fight, and even supporters of the new housing system concede there are significant problems. Lewis has agreed to review the process three years from now, when all the houses will be completely randomized...
Into this furor comes Taylor, erstwhile political reporter for the Washington Post, who apart from general civic-mindedness had his own reasons for taking up this crusade. It was he who in 1987 asked presidential candidate Gary Hart whether he had ever committed adultery, thereby changing forever the rules about probing the private lives of public figures. "There's no question that it prompted a whole lot of soul-searching in me," Taylor says...
...grass-roots sentiments help propel the religious right's top priority for this year: to stomp out the possibility of civil marriages for gays. The furor was touched off in 1993 when the Hawaii supreme court ruled that denying marriage licenses to three gay couples appeared to violate the equal-protection clause of the state constitution. The case was remanded to a lower court, and is not expected to be thoroughly settled before 1998. But the religious right has been galvanized by fears that a gay marriage in Hawaii might, under the U.S. Constitution, have to be recognized in other...
Fernandez still talks to Elizabeth, a pediatric nurse, and their 1 1/2-year-old daughter, also named Elizabeth, on a nightly basis. But he is worried that the furor over the downing of the American civilian planes on Feb. 24 will lead to a communications blackout. "Still, I will never lose faith that we will be reunited," he says, "even if this incident means it will take a little longer." As for adjusting to American life, he says, "I feel funny and strange all the time. But everybody has been nice, and when I step on the mound, I feel at home...
...that positions falling outside these boundaries are "unacceptable." But sometimes the lines need to be crossed just so we can investigate why we hold the fundamental beliefs that we do. In the short term, taking extreme positions on controversial issues may be followed by hurt feelings and initial furor. But if the long-term result of crossing ideological lines is increased debate and serious analysis of important questions, then...