Word: rule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state of Israel is an island of Western culture, freedom and law in a morass of premedieval hate. The land "carved from the land of the Arabs" was, under Arab rule, a desert; it is now a rose garden in a wasteland of thorns. Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East, and the only nation in that area openly siding with the U.S. in the international power struggle...
...most parents, such advice, however realistic, will still sound alarming. It seems to translate easily into an all-too-simple rule: "Premarital sex is all right if you are in love and faithful-for a while. And if you can't be good, be careful." Even aside from traditional questions of right or wrong, virtue or sin, this seems to place an inordinately heavy burden of decision and judgment on the young...
...licensing for ex-offenders needs a "thorough overhaul." A dangerous driver is obviously unfit for a driver's license; a stickup artist should never get a pistol permit. But why require "good character" for a barber's license? A better rule: "Criminal convictions should be considered only to the extent actually relevant to fitness to participate in activities posing particular dangers to society...
Finally, Harvard could simply expand its classes to fill Mather House and thus rule out both deconversion and an end to off-campus living...
...House version does not even rule out graduate school deferments. It would leave to a National Manpower Resources Board the right to recommend--on the basis of graduate school studies or occupations--which lives should not be risked in the military. The intent of the President's Commission report and the Senate bill (to prevent legal draft dodging through endless graduate deferments) would be abandoned...