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Even the standard repertoire of New Year's resolutions is easier to obey come July, when the farm stands dare you to keep eating junk and exercise becomes just another word for play. It's harder to escape when your goals can follow you wherever you go; there are websites that will ping you with reminders to count carbs or keep working on your novel manageyourmuse.com) In fact, the only real obstacle to achieving your summer goals is that setting them makes this season feel too much like the rest of the year, a march down the checklist on schedule...
Technically speaking, yes. The most useful comparison may be with the church's anti-capital-punishment stance. The Pope has explicitly connected executions with abortion as part of the "culture of death." But church teaching on abortion is "definitive": Catholics must obey it as an act of faith. Teaching on capital punishment is merely "authentic," meaning believers may bring reason to bear on the issue. The church's catechism calls abortion an absolute evil but hedges on the death penalty, quoting the Pope as saying cases necessitating it "are very rare, if not practically nonexistent." And canon law includes...
...when it had become clear that Nixon would not obey the court order to relinquish the tapes, Cox threatened to ask a federal court to hold Nixon in contempt...
...required to obey the law,” Verba explains. “We attempt to interpret the law as best...
...want to obey the law, but our first priority is to protect the rights of our students,” she says. “The librarians have a national code of ethics, and one of the main tenets is that they protect the rights of the reader...One of the priorities was to talk about how can we continue to protect the rights of our researchers and the rights of our students...