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...answer is that abortion is morally wrong-even, some say, a blithely conducted form of infanticide. There are painfully compelling reasons to oppose abortion; philosophers and theologians have done so for many centuries. The Hippocratic Oath includes a stricture against aiding an abortion. (Many medical schools now use a rephrased version of the oath to circumvent the abortion issue.) The procedure involves the destruction of a form of human life-life in utero, but life nonetheless. By the sixth week, almost all of the human organs are in place; by the eighth, brain-wave activity can be detected. The right...
...pictures on the oval walls are from Ford's time, most of the furniture too. Carter did resurrect Kennedy's desk, but its top is thinly populated. The Bible on which Carter placed his hand when he took the oath rests on one corner. Harry Truman's THE BUCK STOPS HERE sign stands beside a kicking glass donkey that was a present from Georgia Democrats. Near by is Admiral Rickover's memento: "Oh, God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small." They are stage props. The man lives elsewhere, perhaps down...
...years as president, then got a surprise honorary degree himself ("You have been the disturber of placid assumptions and the preserver of the peace"). Amid the azaleas and tulips of his campus residence. Brewster was later sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain. The man who administered the oath of office: Cyrus Vance, his old friend and as Secretary of State, his new boss, who had interrupted his talks at Geneva to fly back at his own expense to watch his son Cyrus Vance Jr. graduate with the class...
...familiar Mafia lore that has become commonplace knowledge through movies and fiction is essentially true. All the made men are bound by a loyalty oath of blood and fire. They are divided into regimes, or squads, under the command of caporegimes, or lieutenants, who in turn take their orders from the clan's dons. Years ago, the don was both a prince of crime and social arbiter among Italians in his territory. But the breakup of the old Italian neighborhoods has stripped away his social functions?and any romanticism that might have surrounded him. Today he is no more than...
...exception on the committee appears in the person of State Rep. Charles R. Doyle, whose conspicuous silence on Pat Horton stems from the fact that he did not attend any of the committee hearings where Horton and others took the oath. Incidentally, Doyle says he is "leaning toward keeping the criminal penalties on at this time...