Word: thresholds
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...position of the Catholic Church on abortion is clear, but it may surprise you. In his recent book, Crossing the Threshold of Hope,Pope John Paul II wrote that in firmly rejecting pro choice it is necessary to become courageously pro-woman, promoting a choice that is truly in favor of women. The Catholic Church believes that abortion is murder, but also recognizes that simply saying so will not end the devaluation of life. Words will not end abortion. Deeds of compassion and understanding will...
Insanity is its own manifesto. To a criminal trial lawyer, the term has several meanings and definitions. "Competent" to stand trial is actually a low-threshold legal matter. One merely has to be able to understand the nature and consequences of the charges and be able to assist in one's defense. It is obvious that Kaczynski should qualify on both counts. But his lawyers argue that the nature of his illness prevents him from accepting--and thus cooperating with--a mental-illness defense, and that, they argue, should make him incompetent to stand trial. As for defending himself, only...
That said, I must caution against expecting too much. Raises won't be anywhere near the 30% threshold being doled out (again) to millionaire thirtysomething bankers and brokers. That's Wall Street. We at least pretend to live in the real world...
Harvard students are united by a single institution that affects them from the moment they cross the threshold of higher education: the Harvard-MIT Coop...
...Getty would crash the Old Masters market like an 800-lb. gorilla has proved largely groundless. The collection's focus is fairly narrow; it was never, Walsh points out, meant to be a "Western Met," an encyclopedic museum. Its collection of painting and sculpture, entirely European, stops at the threshold of the 20th century--the most recent picture in it is James Ensor's huge, pullulating satire, The Entry of Christ into Brussels...