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...easily, the sociological discussion above or the particular onus of Jewish self-preservation can cloud one of the foremost reasons for intermarriage. It's easy to oppose intermarriage when you're just looking at statistics, almost impossible when you examine each case individually. Most mixed couples invoke love to counter those who disapprove of their marriages. Why should anyone stand in the way of a relationship that satisfies the two parties involved? Our society is surely libertarian enough to permit and even applaud intermarriage on that basis alone...
Unfortunately for several new Members of Congress, the House Democratic leadership showed little interest in protecting its party's weaker links. Instead of letting the more entrenched incumbents absorb the budget backlash, House leaders put the onus on fledgling representatives who were already in trouble...
Carter, a spokesperson with the FBI in Washington D.C., said his office had taken no special precautions in relation to high profile universities. He said the onus fell on university police departments to increase awareness of the possible dangers in the mail...
...move that may put the onus on other schools to follow suit, Stanford University last week announced an ambitious plan that would increase participation by female athletes and pump a million extra dollars a year into its women's sports teams...
...further commented on his "frustration" that in race relations the onus repeatedly fell upon members of the Black, Asian and Hispanic communities to "initiate the dialogue...