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Boston Edison's present suit also aruges that the decision of the BRA board was not valid because four of five board members are serving beyond the time limit of their original appointments, and the board's autonomy is undermined--so it is possible for Boston Mayor Kevin H. White to remove them at any time...
...work to the historians of wizardry or of science. Conventional histories deal with technological development as though it were an independent force, growing without any influence from the men who in fact produced it. But to ignore an inventor as part of a larger force is no more valid than ignoring a president because his actions are largely determined by political forces or ignoring a businessman because his ways are mainly set by laws of economics...
...does offer, however, some sketchy ideas about the direction in which modern societies should move. The point he stresses most strongly in response to new ethnicity sociologists like Michael Novac, who see a retreat into ethnic culture as a valid response to the dehumanizing aspects of modern industrial society--is that industrial society is here to stay, and that the answer is not to "escape into primordiality," but to accept modernity and think about ways of shaping it. In addition, he warns the peoples of the Third World developing countries that transcendental nationalism, while a necessary credo in the process...
...Hasler sees it, Pope Pius IX and his allies so rigged Vatican I that its actions may not have been valid. If so judged by a future council, the dogma could theoretically be bypassed...
...ironic that this attitude should be taken by the leaders of a people who, only 30 years ago, were pleading for the "right" to a homeland of their own. Why is not the right of the Palestinians as valid as was the right of the Israelis in 1945? George P. Highland Atascadero, Calif...