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First, to cast psychoanalysis as the soldier of science in the battle between mysticism and rationalism seems to handicap the side of reason. While analysis is currently in retreat from more purely scientific methods of treating mental disorders, notably psychopharmacology, religion remains the purest form of faith. The combatants in this battle begin on inherently unequal terms, then, because Catholicism has every right to carry the standard of mysticism, while psychoanalysis can make at best a feeble claim to the banner of nationalism...
...professors and administrators on the council discussed allowing complaints besides these that "allege discrimination on the basis of race, color, religious belief, sex, national or ethnic origin, handicap or age" to be included in the procedure...
...Vellucci's case is simply how far he will go toward repaying the Independents, whose support made him mayor for the third time. There is little worry that Vellucci will retreat from his vocal support of rent control. But he could conceivably back Independent-sponsored resolutions that would handicap the rent control board in administering the city's restraints over landlords. And more important, Vellucci could support a weakening of the anti-condominium ordinances, which protect rent-controlled apartments from open market forces that would leave Cambridge a high-priced, posh bedroom community for Boston...
...Faculty Council, in its first session of the spring term, also considered expanding the procedures to apply to complaints other than charges of discrimination. The current procedures deal only with grievances" which allege discrimination on the basis of race, color, religious belief, sex, national or ethnic origin, handicap...
...nonpareil. So far she has represented ten clients and has turned away many more. This week CBS will air one of her projects, The Ordeal of Bill Carney, a two-hour movie about a quadriplegic who made legal history in 1979 when the California Supreme Court ruled that his handicap did not disqualify him from having custody of two young sons. Carney became Golden's first "real life rights" client. The attorney who won the custody case had served with Golden on the board of the Western Law Center for the Handicapped and knew that she practiced entertainment...