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...Catholic belief, no human can dissolve a marriage, a sacrament undertaken by bride and groom before God. Church tribunals do not presume to void the contract. They can only determine (to the dismay of people in Rauch Kennedy's position) that owing to human incapacity or error, a valid contract was never entered into in the first place. For centuries the standards for this were clear and high: mental illness of either spouse, for instance, or impotence at the time of marriage. In 1968 only 338 decrees of nullity were granted in the U.S. But in the early 1960s, John...
Each candidate would have filled a special void in the government department. Honig would have updated the department to the methods of contemporary political thought and feminist theory in her work on issues such as subjectivity, legitimacy and identity. Berkowitz, following in the footsteps of his much-maligned conservative comrade Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. '53, would have maintained the living spirit of Plato and Aristotle in political discourse. If President Rudenstine were truly committed to diversity, he would have overlooked the internecine political dissension in the department rather than the candidates themselves in making these tenure decisions. There...
...Atwater is gone, and other prominent Republican kingmakers of the Reagan-Bush era--James Baker, Ed Rollins, Charles Black--are out to pasture. To Reed, who last week announced his resignation as executive director of the Christian Coalition, this adds up to what he describes as a "strategic void." The 35-year-old Christian operator is not forsaking God for Mammon, but is seeking to fill that vacuum and lead the religious right to the promised land of real electoral power. Yes, Reed built the coalition into a prominent faction within the party, but as a nonprofit advocacy group...
...recommendation, if passed, may effectively void the part of the compromise reached by the University and PBHA last summer which established the position of executive agent, who reported to both parties...
...fact, the class taught by the King visiting professor of Canadian studies, Sociology 196: "Sociology of Canadian Studies," is nearly 90 percent Canadian. Students feel that the course fills a void in Harvard's offerings in general, according to Matthew J. Waterbury...