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Last year the head of the prestigious Duke University School of Law, Paul D. Carrington, wrote in a widely circulated article that "The nihilist who must profess that legal principle does not matter has an ethical duty to depart the law school." That article referred specifically to Unger, but the Duke dean continues to generate considerable controversy in legal and others have criticized both the scholarly ability and the morality of CLS professors in numerous harshly-worded essays. "While the adherents to this banner [CLS] are a varied group, it seems safe to characterize them collectively as nihilists Carrington writes...
Perhaps the most frustrating aspect of Harvard's stance is that they continue to profess a desire to preserve Cambridge's socio-economic and ethnic and racial diversity in spite of threatening that already precarious diversity by buying up all the property within its reach each and by trying to circumvent rent control. Now that Craigie Arms is behind us, it's time for the University to end its charade...
...recent centuries the church has apportioned a substantial part of its energies to battles against external enemies--skepticism, nihilism, secularism and atheism. Today Rome finds itself under a strong challenge from some who & profess to be loyally Catholic. Latin America, a region that the Pope is visiting for the sixth time, grapples with such problems as poverty, unemployment, crowded housing and political turbulence. The church hierarchy is divided over the growing influence on the area's 338 million Catholics of a radical movement, partly influenced by Marxism, that is known as liberation theology. In the U.S., the papacy confronts restiveness...
...members were killed in September when their helicopter was shot down during a rebel air assault. The group's leaders have told the FDN that they have the names of 3,000 Americans eager to help the contras. U.S. officials, perhaps skeptical of CMA's figure, profess not to be overly concerned. "If Americans give indirect support to the contras, more power to them," said a Reagan aide. "But participating in gun battles inside Nicaragua? We'd rather they didn...
American consumers are increasingly concerned about the safety of their money in the bank. In a poll taken in July for American Banker newspaper, 36% of the people surveyed said their confidence in banks had fallen. According to Gallup polls, the percentage of Americans who profess a high degree of faith in bankers dropped from 60% in 1979 to 51% last year...