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...they are serving a higher law than the Selective Service Law-the law of morality. They might quote St. Thomas Aquinas. "Human law," he wrote, "does not bind a man in conscience, and if it conflicts with the higher law, human law should not be obeyed." That is a maxim followed by all who have broken the law as a matter of conscience, from Thoreau and Gandhi to Martin Luther King and the brothers Berrigan. The principle that a man's conscience takes precedence over the dictates of his government was reinforced at the Nuremberg war crimes trials, which...
...past few weeks have provided Mr. Meany with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fulfill the promise of his past accomplishments and become the statesman that labor so desperately needs. Regrettably, he chose not to seize that opportunity, proving once again by his childlike performance the business maxim that a man should retire...
Since it is not within your power to change the rules of their game, you can not change its results. However, you can change the game that you will play. Jackson saw the truth of this maxim manifested in the liberation struggles of African peoples. In their struggles, he saw men and women who, though they were black and oppressed, had discovered a way to disengage themselves from the cultural and psychological oppression that American blacks still suffered under. Once disengaged, the Africans were able to devise successful ways of terminating colonial tyranny and establishing their own independence...
Medieval Dish. Sensitive to criticism that the whole thing was a mite overdone, the Shah inquired angrily before the party: "Why are we reproached for serving dinner to 50 heads of state? What am I supposed to do-serve them bread and radishes?" Hardly. The affair was catered by Maxim's of Paris, which sent to Persepolis 165 chefs, wine stewards and waiters. Maxim's shopping list included 25,000 bottles of wine-including a Chateau Lafite-Rothschild, 1945, at $100 a bottle-that were sent to Iran a month early to rest. There were also...
...depends for its enduring value. His handling of tone (and thus of space) tended to be weak, and his drawing was often coarse and perfunctory. His strength was neurosis, and the best of his etchings, with their strangely modern battles of id and antimacassar, are illustrations of a Freudian maxim: civilization is repression...