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Approaching the case of Baby M the New Jersey Supreme Court might have wished for the sword of Solomon -- not to divide the child, but to cut through the Gordian thicket of paradox, bad faith and conflicting feelings that has surrounded the matter from the start. As it turned out, in a unanimous ruling last week the court sliced the issue in a way that gave important concessions to both the parents, but cut to the quick the practice of surrogacy...
...this bizarre paradox come about? To be included on HUD's down-and- out list, a city must meet three out of six criteria of neediness. Beverly Hills fit the bill because its growth rate from 1970 to 1984 was less than 4.6%, its retail and manufacturing employment increased by less than 3.3% from 1977 to 1982, and at least 20% of its homes were built before...
Nordhaus' explanation of this paradox just doesn't hold up. He suggests that when the "sun stopped shining on the divestment issue," protesters--who "lack moral conviction"--"dropped their beliefs" and moved en masse to "a newer and more chic cause," namely the drive of Harvard clerical and technical workers to unionize...
...greatest paradox of academic work in modern America is that most professors teach most of the time, and large proportions of them teach all the time, but teaching is not the activity most rewarded by the academic profession nor most valued by the system at large," the report states. "Trustees and administrators in one sector after another praise teaching and reward research...
Most of the presidential hopefuls have taken advantage of this New Hampshire paradox by devoting time and resources to building grassroots support and making personal appearances in the state...