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...hence Judaism's holiest site. It is also the site of Al Aqsa mosque, revered by Moslems as the third most sacred spot in Islam, after Mecca and Medina. Previously, Israel's Chief Rabbinate had forbidden Orthodox Jews even to set foot on the Temple Mount, lest they accidentally commit sacrilege by stepping into the ancient temple's lost Holy of Holies, where only the high priest could enter. But some militant Orthodox Jews chose to challenge the Moslems' monopoly of the mount by praying there, thus triggering the court decision...
...Peking's Tsinghua University, indicating that Chairman Mao had endorsed and very likely started the campaign against Teng. But while the goal of the current campaign is clearly to cut Teng down to size, there was evidence that party officials were seeking to keep the struggle under control, lest it lead to the kind of chaos that swept China during the Cultural Revolution. There have not yet been any posters with incendiary slogans-such as ROOT OUT THE POISONOUS WEEDS and SWEEP AWAY MONSTERS AND DEMONS-aimed directly at the cadre of pragmatic bureaucrats who were restored to high...
...John Stuart Mill must be traded in for the approach of the principled conservatives, Burke and Tocqueville. Enlightened economic self-interest is no longer a sufficient rationale for the continuation of capitalism: the masses must now be provided with a new "liberal" philosophy justifying restraint in the national interest, lest a more extreme ideology of the Right or Left takes advantage of popular anger and destroys liberal freedoms and society altogether...
...cuts will not take effect until mid-1977, lest they impede Britain's recovery from the recession and add to an unusually high unemployment figure of nearly 1.5 million. Nonetheless, a London Times headline summed it up best: SO THE PARTY'S OVER...
...Lest one get the impression that the problems with the affirmative action plan are all concentrated around faculty hiring and recruitment, one should look at the situation which Harvard non-faculty employees face. Women and minorities are under-represented at the higher levels for both clerical and technical staff as well as non-teaching officers. (See diagrams.) For this reason promotion policies are critical...