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Although they guaranteed to maintain religious tolerance in Maryland, the state's Roman Catholic founders also guaranteed death for anyone "who shall deny the Holy Trinity." Vestiges of that 1649 paradox have hung on ever since, involving Maryland in more church-state lawsuits than any other state in the Union. Nothing, though, quite beats the current snarl that Attorney General Thomas B. Finan calls "the gravest crisis in the administration of criminal law in my experience...
Perhaps no social progress can be made while the bombs are falling. But then, all military victories will become meaningless if Saigon cannot command allegiance in the captured territory. The longer American policymakers fail to recognize this paradox, the more difficult the solution will be and the longer the war will...
Sonic Barriers. Largely as a result of Wallace's advocacy, the "farm problem" of today is vastly different from the cruel paradox of the Depression, when farmers went broke amid bounteous production. Today, despite ever more plentiful crops, the efficient farmer is assured of a decent living, contributes his buying power to the economy and his output to the hungry of the world. He may be part of a "permanently subsidized peasantry," as Charles Shuman, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, insists, but he stands tall on his land...
Since winning independence, India has greatly expanded its education system. It included 25 million students in 1950 compared to 60 million today. But because of the population growth, only 40 per cent of these are in school. India also faces the paradox of a large "educated unemployed." Indian education has always tended more toward the classical rather than the scientific, Beebe explained...
...developed in his magnum opus The Nature and Destiny of Man. But Niebuhr did not construct an either-or theology, one that views man as living either in sin or in grace. His is a both-and theology, one that closely adheres to the Biblical conception of the paradoxical coexistence of sin and grace, good and evil. This strong reassertion of the central paradox of the Gospels, wrote the Rev. D. R. Davies in his study of Niebuhr's thought, constitutes "one of the most vital and profound contributions to contemporary Christian thought." This concept is akin...