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...practice law. The largest question raised by the Lewinsky scandal has, of course, been answered: Should the President, given his troublesome testimony under oath, be removed from office? The answer, duly arrived at by democratic means, is no. Now, however, the court's committee on professional conduct raises another, pricklier question: Is he ethical enough to be an Arkansas lawyer...
Jackson's insistence on an end to run-off primaries for congressional, state and local offices is a pricklier problem. Under the runoff system, mostly in effect in the South, if no one gets more than 50% of the votes cast, the two top vote getters in a multicandidate field are pitted against each other in a second election. Jackson claims that such runoffs are inherently discriminatory, since blacks rarely constitute a majority and thus have difficulty beating a white head to head. One possible compromise: holding runoffs only when the first-round winner receives less than...
...Pricklier Problems. The censure of the trio, however emphatic, has no effect on their rights to preside over church ceremonies. But Bishop Robert Rusack has banned from his Los Angeles diocese a fourth prelate, George Barrett, the resigned bishop of Rochester, whose ordination of more women last month was "decried" at Portland. Meanwhile, many of the 14 women with disputed priestly credentials continue to celebrate Holy Communion in defiance of local bishops...
...House of Bishops could soon face far pricklier problems. Despite the censure, a majority of bishops favor the idea of women's ordination. A change, however, must also win approval from the House of Deputies (priests and laity) at next year's bicameral church convention. With substantial priestly opposition expected, next year's decision looks "nip and tuck," said Washington, D.C.'s Bishop William Creighton, who favors the change...
...reaction could hardly have been pricklier had Mike Pearson suggested a red porcupine on a bed of pine needles. The war veterans almost booed him from the hall, and throughout the land other flag-waving Canadians raised a howl. Editorial cartoonists had a field day; a flag-toting Pearson dodging the shot and shell of protest; Pearson with a flag in one hand, a gun in the other, threatening John Q. Canada. Vowed Newfoundland's Premier: "We will continue to fly the Union Jack if we are the last place in Canada to do it." In angry letters...