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...particular staff member or members. I realize that under time constraints and staffing necessities, errors are bound to occur. Use of an old template, for instance, may explain the wrong day/date combination. My concern is that with such laxity in pure copy editing skill, the Crimson stands to lose some of the credibility that I, as a reader, usually give it credit...
...ordaining Barry Stopfel,a non-celibate gay, as a deacon. The debate centers on whether the Episcopal church has any sort of doctrine on sexual morality. A decision is expected sometime this week, but for the church, any decision will have serious implications. "The church is in a real lose-lose situation here," says Religion correspondent Richard Ostling. "On the one side, they have a large contingent of conservatives who are morally opposed to ordaining gays or lesbians. But there is another large group that fundamentally disagrees and would be very upset if the church makes any ruling opposing gays...
...they must also decide how far they are willing to go to win, and that is less an intellectual challenge than a moral one. If they gain the whole world at the cost of their own souls, the battle for New Hampshire will haunt them whether they win or lose...
...After Game 1, Kasparov was not offering any odds at all. "He was devastated," said his computer coach, Frederick Friedel. "It was a shattering experience. We didn't know what the game meant. There was the theoretical possibility that the computer would be invincible, and that he would lose all six games...
Enforcing these rules on the insurance companies will not be easy, either. After all, you are asking them to take customers they are statistically certain to lose money on. There are myriad subtle and unsubtle ways the companies can attract the good risks and shun the bad ones. The Kassebaum-Kennedy bill contains detailed rules about, for example, when insurance companies will be permitted to go out of business. That's just one taste of the complexities ahead...