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...rejected the proposed amendment by a margin of 11--with moderate Republicans tipping the balance. School and prayer are, quite simply, an unacceptable fusion of church and state, as the Senate correctly resolved once again. But the closeness of the vote and the determination of those supporting the measure warrant a close look at the politics of school prayer...
Many U.S. doctors believe that the evidence against alcohol is strong enough to warrant strict warnings. But others disagree and doubt that warning signs are justified. Basically, physicians are disputing the degree of alcohol consumption necessary to risk the abnormalities that physicians call FAS, for fetal alcohol syndrome. Says Dr. Robert J. Sokol, an obstetrician at Wayne State University: "It's questionable whether there has ever been a case of an FAS child born to less than a chronically addicted woman." Dr. John Larsen of George Washington University even takes issue with the Surgeon General's findings. There...
...unnecessarily inflexible rule. The College should certainly inform graduate schools of serious offenses such as plagiarism. But do tutors have a similar moral obligation to describe, in a schoolmarmish way, less serious and often trivial cases? Does walking out onto the fire escape in the student's sophomore year warrant's several paragraphs in the House letter...
...government expense. Such "philanthropists" dip their hands into the public pocket themselves and are indifferent to embezzlement of public property by others. They cause grave harm to Communist construction, of course, but they do not run the show, figuratively speaking. They are too few and far between to warrant judgment about Communists in general...
...military service. This has been interpreted to mean that all gay people, even if they are not "guilty" of homosexual affections with another person, are to be excluded or expelled front the armed forces. For the military, the potential of an individual for same sex attraction is enough to warrant a court-martial, usually ending in a dishonorable discharge...