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Regarding the argument that choosing gender goes against nature: the same objection was used in earlier times by people horrified by vaccines or heart transplants, which are now completely acceptable. Every time we use medicine to cure a disease or prevent a death, we go against nature--willingly. Admittedly, sex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Quandary That Isn't | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

They were wrong, but their cause was not totally lost. Last week--457 years, several disastrous religious wars and dozens of denominational splits later--Edward Cardinal Cassidy announced Vatican approval, with some caveats, of a Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, toward which Catholic and Lutheran theologians have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Half-Millennium Rift | 7/6/1998 | See Source »

"I think everyone pretty much was for the merger," Choi says. "The only objection would be that we weren't quite sure how the merger would synthesize the consituency, leadership and vision of the two separate groups," he says.

Author: By Hoon-jung Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Seeking to Unify Campus Community, Four Korean Student Groups Merge | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

Although we respect the objections of the Quad House masters of the river Houses, especially near the MAC quad, do not have such valid objections. Several masters objected to Merriman's proposal on the basis of feared destruction of the landscaping and the underground conduit system. While the grounds would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Buried Expression | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

A more potent objection is that picking people at random hinders our ability to account for diversity. But this is untrue. The initial standard for qualification could be set so as to guarantee a diverse poll of admits to the lottery. True, you might by chance end up with a...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: An End to Rejection | 4/15/1998 | See Source »

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