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...they go to all this trouble to discredit him? Why worry themselves about something they say is of little importance? Could it be that they want to make a name for themselves as being wise or they wish to be free of any responsibility to obey God? The quickest way is to pretend he doesn't exist. What they are saying is nothing new. Many hammers have beaten on the old anvil, but those hammers are gone; the anvil is still around. I am particularly concerned not that they will damage the anvil but that their listeners may naively mistake...
Most Harvard students know Kaczynski's type only too well. Almost every undergraduate returns home for vacations with horror stories about classmates who refuse to obey the rules of proper hygeine. We all see fellow students who lock themselves in their rooms for hours at a time and who only respond in grunts when spoken...
...because they allow for a better end. For example, despite the high rate of automobile accidents, many of us choose to drive cars for their speed and convenience. On the other hand, one could argue that we don't permit absolute freedom. For instance, we require automobile drivers to obey speed limits. We control for excess danger to society while permitting the maximum freedom to the individual. It is this personal freedom with which we should place our primary concern. In the case of the menorah ban, the solution to the problem does not allow the original freedom to exist...
JAILED. F. LEE BAILEY, 62, attorney; for contempt of court; in Tallahassee, Florida. He helped spring O.J. Simpson, but now Bailey is behind bars for failing to obey a judge's order to hand over $25 million in stock that the U.S. government claims as its own but the celebrity lawyer considers payment for legal services rendered to a drug-trafficking client...
...issue is whether each state's delegates have to obey the will of their voters. Some delegates are theoretically free-lancers: Ohio's delegates must sign a pledge for their preferred contender, but party rules state that "they are not legally bound to vote for that candidate at the National Convention." Some states have rules that bind their delegates on the first ballot (such as Arizona), or the first and second ballot (South Carolina), or until the candidate dies or withdraws or releases his charges. Some states allow a delegate to break a pledge if, as in the case...