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...drawn most of the attention of troubled Catholics and the Pope's critics in the West. The conviction is widespread that sexual morality and conduct are private concerns, strictly between individuals and their consciences. But who guides those consciences? the Pope would ask. Many population experts see a future tide of babies as a problem to be solved; the Pope sees these infants-in- waiting as precious lives, the gifts of God. The church's doctrine that condoms should not be used under any circumstances has provoked, in the age of AIDS, deep anger. Henri Tincq, who writes on religious...
...turned the red tide...
...Harvard can't keep the tide rolling in its favor for longer periods of time, all of its games will be like the Lehigh game...
These measures, as even Dole admits, hold out little hope of turning the tide of battle in Bihac or elsewhere in Bosnia. But they are guaranteed to do great damage to the foremost U.S. foreign policy asset in the world: NATO. Lifting the arms embargo and mounting air strikes against the Serbs would endanger the thousands of British, French and other peacekeeping troops on the ground in Bosnia. Conveniently, the U.S. has none there, which invites Dole's cowboy notions. The French and British are justifiably apoplectic at a U.S. that is unwilling to risk a single soldier...
...progression was always a bit jury-rigged. But in the 1980s it imploded, leaving massive carnage. The crack epidemic unleashed a new tide of kids on overburdened social-service agencies. Beleaguered child-welfare workers juggled huge case loads, and soon the newspapers were filled with horror stories not only about failures to remove children from dangerous homes but also about abuse in foster families and kids who bounced almost unnoticed from one inappropriate foster-care experience to the next. A report commissioned by the Reagan Administration in the late '80s concluded: "Foster care is intended to protect children from neglect...