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...imperfect world, rights inevitably conflict. There can never be an absolute way of determining whether the press's right to the truth has priority over a citizen's right to privacy. In the case of rape, it may be that the traditional policy of reticence, even if quaintly motivated, still makes sense. Many women applaud Ziegenmeyer's courage. Not every rape victim can be expected to possess...
...group active in the principals controversy, is expected to pack a meeting of the board of education. Unquestionably, the highly charged atmosphere robs students and teachers of precious classroom time. But, for the moment at least, many Chicagoans take some comfort in the notion that parent-led councils, while imperfect, could not possibly make the city's beleaguered school system any worse. "All we've done now is empower people to make decisions that may or may not be right," says Professor Bakalis. "It's a mistake to believe only people with Ph.D.s know what...
...results are clearly silly. The survey is imperfect...
...first introduced 24 years ago, it was hailed as a magic bullet aimed at the heart of heroin addiction. A neat, clean medical solution to a social problem. It has proved to be something less than that. Methadone is a treatment, not a cure, for addiction, and an imperfect one at that. But for some 100,000 of the country's half-million heroin addicts, it offers an alternative to shooting up as well as the possibility of a productive life...
Solidarity is at once a personal and a universal matter, for it raises the fundamental question of what is the "self" and what is the "other." One of the glories of our era is that we have witnessed the birth of global solidarity; imperfect, struggling, but nonetheless real. We see it in the creation of the United Nations, in the concern about nuclear war, in the growing worldwide resolve to protect the environment and in the struggle against AIDS...