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...revolution of the mind. This is the only way toward a new culture and new politics that can meet the challenge of our time. We have changed our attitude toward some matters -- such as religion -- which, admittedly, we used to treat in a simplistic manner . . . Now we not only proceed from the assumption that no one should interfere in matters of the individual's conscience; we also say that the moral values that religion generated and embodied for centuries can help in the work of renewal in our country...
...landmark Karen Ann Quinlan case, in which the New Jersey Supreme Court permitted the Quinlan family to remove her from a respirator. Although who decides and what proof is required have differed, most state courts have found a way to accommodate those who seek to let a death proceed...
...really fun part. Tell insecure Yalies you now regret your decision to turn down Yale for Harvard, subtlely emphasizing that you got into Yale. You have now penetrated the realm of their most profound insecurity--that Yale is a school of Harvard rejects. Proceed carefully but surely...
...proceed from the position that the foreign policy of the Soviet Union is based on demilitarization. The use of force is ruled out, except when someone confronts the Soviet Union from a position of strength. Some Soviets may approve of the changes in Hungary and Poland, others not. That's their opinion. Our policy is such that we are not interfering in these internal processes...
...sought. The U.S. role would wither, and the Soviet Union, the largest land power, would be free to dominate. Josef Joffe, foreign editor of the Munich newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung, argues that decay of the East bloc is not harmful to the Soviet Union as long as it does not proceed more quickly than the loosening of the transatlantic tie in the West. "If Gorbachev can pull this off," he says, "the rewards will be handsome: maximal Soviet influence in Europe, which will more than compensate for partial loss of control in the eastern half...