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...with honors (History and Literature demands 16 courses, half the 32 needed for graduation), it is difficult to both navigate the burdensome Core and take a wide breadth of courses. Yet for those who search, a wide liberal arts education is there for the finding; and learning for the sake of learning is highly valued, at least among the faculty...
...certain critical issues. Simply because it bounces off so many people, marriage is the most political of sacraments, which means that it has to be made to work in the here and now as well the there and then. It has to play in Peoria, if only for the sake of the children, and the clergy has to think like politicians, even while the politicians are talking about love...
...think it only comes up between close friends and roommates, when you get to know someone well enough that you feel comfortable that it won't be accusations or curiosity just for the sake of novelty or voyeurism," Summer says...
...argument's sake that the abuse of a law allowing assisted suicide is a distinct possibility [MEDICINE, April 15]. Would it not be better to tailor the law with stringent conditions and guidelines rather than throw it out altogether? Many of the laws of this country are susceptible to abuse. Consider freedom of speech or the right to bear arms. Should we throw them out? The decision to die should be personal. Only the individual who is suffering can say when bearable pain has become unbearable. If that person wishes to be dead, why are we arguing? Whose life...
This is what things have come to in the latter days of school desegregation in Kansas City. For the sake of desegregation, blacks are sometimes barred from the most popular schools on account of their race, lest they tilt the enrollment too far from the goal of 35% white students. Like most urban systems, the Kansas City, Missouri, School District (KCMSD) has lost white students to the suburbs in droves, which has made the task of achieving racial balance nearly impossible. After deciding that inner-city students could not be bused out to the suburbs as part of a mandatory...