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Death has no sting. It is the custom for an Enu to go out of sight to die-conveniently underground. From sheer boredom the inhabitants invent their wars, like board games. They do not even care if they win. Winning can be a problem. "Win a war and you have to make the enemy do your will," the Enu Defense Minister complains. "What will? We have no will. We even lack a will to live. We no longer need...
...consider a number of factors to determine whether a law impaired a minority's right to vote. The House bill would reestablish this standard. But the Administration seeks to reaffirm at best the standard enunciated is Mobile v. Bolden (180)-which said that a plaintiff had to prove an invent to discriminate, a far harder task. Ignoring the realities of contempoary discrimination in its scrutiny of generations-old election laws, this doctrine places a tremendous burden on the plaintiff...
...sojourn at the Bauhaus in Germany during the 1920s, then a last expatriation to Paris after the rise of Hitler. If ever a painter carried his culture in one portable labyrinth on his back, as if he were a rambling snail, it was Kandinsky. And while he did not invent abstract art on his own (as he and his admirers were given to claim), he certainly did more to promote the notion of ideal abstraction, in those distant years before World War I, than any other European artist...
...does anti-Catholicism persist at a university where discrimination against Blacks, Jews, women, American Indians, and other is piously denounced? The answer is that many people are afraid of religion. People need gods, and if they have rejected the "old" one they must invent a new one, whether it be sex, football, consumerism, or even Harvard. But the problem is that the old one refuses to go away. Henry Rosovsky may say. "Harvard is here forever," but in fact, Harvard is not here forever. The Christian Church is here forever, and in the year 4000, when Harvard and The Crimson...
...single state has notified Washington that it is ready to accept the block grants, and many will not be ready by the time the funds start flowing this fall. Says Lou Glasse, director of New York State's office for the aging: "Each state is acting almost to invent its own wheel." Yet some local budget chops are beginning to become painfully clear. States in the Northeast and Midwest will probably be forced to cut social services most severely, since these states tend to spend more on the needy than Sunbelt states and are not so prosperous...