Word: licitations
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...little brother is a freshman in college. Over the course of the year, I have been updated, via IM and drunken phone calls, on a series of more and less licit college firsts. His first Spring Fling—which, so far as I can gather, is like our Springfest with more alcohol and an actual band—was last weekend. His first brush with campus police, first fraternity rush season, and first sexile came considerably before that. His breathless and quasi-coherent accounts of college life make me nostalgic for a time when so much of college...
...take some snapshots of Caroline and Luci, then between innings Kevin and I go for sausages, pretzels and Mill City beer. As if to make the evening more perfect than perfection, the concessionaire cards me. I'm 47. As I leave with my licit purchases, I notice that he cards the next guy in line, too. This guy looks about 60, and I surmise the Spinners must have gotten in trouble for underage sales, and now have a general policy. Oh well...
...ready to publicize and sympathize with their whines and laments while ignoring their flagrant violations of the peace accords, such as the continued operation of illegal offices in Jerusalem--a much more serious infringement on the delicate status of the holy city, incidentally, than any entirely licit move made by Mayor Olmert. Indeed, the Palestinian Authority is barred by the Oslo Accords from establishing any official presence whatsoever in Jerusalem. Should we be so shocked, then, that the city's legitimate government is making reasonable municipal decisions without first consulting Yasser Arafat and his ministers...
Diane's liaison with "The Weasel," as her cyber-Romeo signed his E-mail, may not meet the legal definition of adultery--which implies physical, not virtual, coupling. But there's no doubt that cyberromances, whether licit or not, generate genuine feelings. "This is not the same as reading Playboy," says psychologist Sherry Turkle of M.I.T, author of Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet (Simon & Schuster; $25). "There really is another person there, and that person can touch you and move you in various ways, emotionally and sexually...
...weeks ago, even as the daunting logistics for his tour were being fine-tuned, an adult Bible class met at the red brick Our Lady of the Assumption school in Claremont, Calif. The 25 participants quickly fell into heated disagreement over two issues: Is it morally licit for couples to live together outside of marriage? Should the church approve the remarriage of divorced parishioners? A generation ago, members of such a group would not have challenged the church's no to both questions. But at this meeting, reported Lee Kimball, a registered nurse, "Everybody had a different opinion. That...