Word: validation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reincarnation is an existing philosophy. It is felt to be valid by millions of people around the world and in various cultures, currently and historically. To disallow this subject in college is in itself primitive and "blatant nonsense...
...immediately apparent: officials trying to put their best foot forward; newsmen pressing to discover what they may be concealing. Yet the difference between the news process and courtroom procedure is profound. The judge is missing-that judge who forbids misleading tactics, freely admonishes both sides, determines which evidence is valid and finally instructs the jury on how it should weigh what it has heard. In the news-gathering process, the press is both prosecutor and sole judge of its own activities-answerable in advance of publication to no one (though it can be sued once the story is out), free...
...decision reflects culturally biased attitudes as well as political self-interest. The judge, as well as the lawyers representing the town of Mashpee, define a tribe in terms of a Western conception of government, ignoring the more informal governmental institutions the Indians accept as valid. The decision notes that because the state of Massachusetts switched the Indians' status from that of special Indian district to a town 100 years ago, the Indians ceased to be a tribe. The Indians, however, have long considered themselves a tribe regardless of any state declaration...
Another CHUL member said it was questionable whether the food services at other universities will supply valid information. "They're all good buddies. They look after each other," the CHUL member said...
Early Christians, in a sense, had it easy. The "enemy" was clearly defined as antiChristian, paganism. Today the greatest enemies of the church are those like Father Küng who claim the name "Christian" while denying the dogma that makes that claim valid...