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...last October, the committee uses brackets to denote inserted words that do not occur in the actual text of the Bible. Beyond that, the committee has banished some passages now deemed offensive, such as Paul's teaching on marriage in Ephesians 5 ("Wives, be subject to your husbands, as to the Lord"). The committee excised verses from 7 Corinthians 6 in which Paul assails Christian men who use prostitutes, presumably because women are portrayed as sex objects...
With these simple facts in mind, the question of divestment becomes moot. Not because divestment will or will not work, but because it will not occur until it is no longer profitable to conduct business in South Africa. That will happen when Black workers in South Africa rise in revolt and crush the apartheid state...
Boies' 450-page brief for CBS cites testimony from officials ranging from former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara to CIA operatives who served in Viet Nam. Their testimony, Boies contends, shows that the manipulation of enemy-troop assessments did occur. On the First Amendment issue, he argues that far from exhibiting "reckless disregard" for the truth, CBS interviewed more than 80 people for the report. Finally, he contends that the press should have "absolute immunity" from libel suits by public officials...
...that outlook sounds, it may be overly optimistic. The CBO made the questionable assumption that no recession would occur for the rest of the decade. History shows, however, that over the past century the economy has suffered a downturn every four years on average, and few economists believe that the business cycle has been repealed. A survey conducted last month by the National Association of Business Economists revealed that 95% of the members polled expect a recession to strike by 1986 at the latest. When asked what would be the causes of the downturn, 79% of the NABE economists blamed...
...improvisations, which occur only in rehearsal, are based on texts, ideas, and feelings that concern the group...