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...Testifying before the Senate Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity, Clark argued that even when a school district is classified officially as having been desegregated, the actual number of black students sitting in classrooms with whites too often remains insignificantly small. Clark's point is, of course, quite valid, but so is the Administration's effort to take the necessary first steps against diehard segregation in the South...
...varied format includes questionnaires, short-answer tests, performance tasks (using scientific equipment), interviews and group discussions. The project is run by a permanent field staff working in private residences and about 2,500 schools. Individual participants-100,000 of them to date-are chosen on random but statistically valid bases, and are never given scores or grades...
...agreed conditions that in the church's eyes violate the idea of true marriage, such as a refusal to have children. West and Francis argue that the church is wrong in its assumption that any person baptized a Catholic is a practicing Catholic and therefore contracts a valid sacramental marriage. Many nominal Catholics, they argue, have little understanding of the sacramental nature of marriage-and even less intention of patterning their conjugal lives...
...ancient church dictum in favorem matrimonii-in favor of the marriage bond. To ensure just that, the Vatican added in the 18th century a "Defender of the Bond" as a figure in every marriage trial, to argue -regardless of the facts of the case -that the marriage be found valid...
Roman Catholic Moral Theologian Bernard Raring, professor at Alfonsiana Academy in Rome's Pontifical Lateran University, suggests that a valid marriage might never grow into a sacramental marriage. "If a marriage is dead," he argues, "it has no sacramental value. Even if it were a valid marriage, it is no longer valid if it has died." Three Jesuits at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University have even asked whether sacramental marriage vows, like solemn religious vows, might not be subject to church dispensation. Monsignor Pospishil, in Divorce and Remarriage, indeed flatly affirms that the church's "power...