Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lost my luggage and "of course my passport, too...doesn't that suck?" would be a thing of the past. I would be allowed to drink as myself. I could wear what I wanted to bars. I could chat with bartenders. I could stop being a burden on my legal friends and those who were better misidentified than I was. In some small way I would be free...
...funny thing is, these words were delivered decades ago. Felix Frankfurter, one of the great legal scholars of the twentieth century, was responding to increased enrollments, increased materialism and what he perceived to be decreased civility among his students in 1930. The more times change, the more they stay the same...
...Choi waxes righteously indignant about the fact that, unless they go out of their way to opt out, students are helping to fund abortions. I share his annoyance at this situation. People should not be permitted to opt out of helping to pay for abortions, or any other legal procedure. Should Jehovah's Witnesses who enjoy the benefits of belonging to mainstream health care organizations, but who object to the practice of blood transfusions, be given the opportunity to determine what their share would be of the annual cost of that procedure, and elect not to pay it? Should People...
...some people have objections to practices which are part and parcel of the legal practice of medicine, it is their own responsibility (and not, as Choi suggests, their health care providers) to discover misfits between their providers' practices and their personal beliefs, and decide what to do about them. If such people would prefer not to pool their funds with the apparently less-moral Creatures who make up the rest of society, they should form health service organizations whose practices better comport with their beliefs. ELIZABETH STEIN '95 Albuquerque...
...restraining order against her parents and has filed a lawsuit in a Texas district court asking for a divorce from them. She charges they squandered her money and robbed her of her childhood. Now a 17-year-old senior in high school, she is asking to be declared a legal adult so she can control her own finances. According to Moceanu, her parents mismanaged her trust fund, pouring her money into a multimillion-dollar, 70,000-sq.-ft. Houston gym complex and a sportswear line. "Her relationship with her parents was only about gymnastics," says Olympic teammate Shannon Miller...