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...must consider the rights of "potential life" (the fetus) and the usually more compelling rights of "present life" (the mother), both sacred under Jewish law. The rabbi must help the conscientious Jew decide which law takes precedence in the case at hand. It must be the Law-not individual whim-that decides, but it is a flexible, not a frozen code. "The Talmud always includes a minority and majority opinion," Riskin notes, "so there is room for interpretation on specific issues and in particular situations...
Dumont's neglect of realpolitik as a factor in decision-making leads the reader to believe that blind whim and guerrilla zeal govern Casaros administration. Dumont should have realized that many apparently irrational economic decisions can be understood by other, especially political, criteria: most notably the naive goal-setting which produced last year's sugar harvest fiasco...
...Life and the Saturday Evening Post; for my effort, I really think I came much closer to the past than I did by reading Life's recent "Nostalgia Issue" in a dentist's office last month. For memory isn't something that can be served up at the enterprising whim of some features editor or film producer; it's an ephemeral commodity. A dozen times a day, if you should be so lucky, memory will brush your ear or dance before your eye. But you can never quite catch up with it or hope to track it down...
...answer depends largely on the whim of Congress. At first, the law required that the child's father be a U.S. citizen who at one time had resided in the U.S. Later, either parent's residency sufficed, but the children were required to live in the U.S. for a specific period of time to maintain their citizenship...
Watson defended his tentative decision, saying "The coach has never been warned before. He's been here 23 years and has an extraordinary record on paper. He can't be removed by the whim of a few students in one season...