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...Supreme Court case of U.S. v. Seeger. In that decision, Justice Tom Clark broadly interpreted the test of religious belief. To qualify as a C.O., wrote Clark, a man's convictions must be "sincere and meaningful" and "occupy a place in the life of its possessor parallel to that filled by the orthodox belief in God." Seeger, who had voiced "skepticism about the existence of God," did not go so far as to call himself an atheist. Clark pointed this out, concluding that "the question is not, therefore, one between theistic and atheistic beliefs. We do not deal with...
...semi-truisms are readily recalled in times of financial trouble to bolster this or that point. But money is also something very simple beyond all those definitions. It is one reliable means of keeping score on the accomplishments of a person, a company or a country. Money gives its possessor a range of choices, and the way that a nation chooses to handle its money sharply illuminates its character. When the world tumbles into a financial crisis, the problem reflects the deeds and misdeeds of the principal governments, and at least in part the aspirations of their people...
Last week, for the first time since 1909, both schools came into The Game with perfect records, and football fever blazed so high that student scalpers were getting up to $175 for a Harvard Stadium seat. Proud possessor of a defensive unit that called itself the "Destroyers' Club," Harvard had allowed its opponents only 230 yds. and 7.6 points per game. Yale, a team that ranked No. 3 in total offense, had averaged 467 yds. and 36 points a game...
...right, two figures are ravenously devouring each other, while the mirror this time picks up the image of an attendant voyeur calmly chatting on the telephone. The work is by Britain's Francis Bacon, 59, currently being shown at Manhattan's Marlborough-Gerson Gallery. The new proud possessor is the multimillion-dollar Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, which already owns seven Bacons and cheerfully parted with an estimated $150,000 to buy this...
...Harvard can handle Pennsylvania at the Stadium today and Dartmouth pulls an upset in the televised game at Yale, the Crimson would become sole possessor of the Ivy lead...