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...Georgia's sodomy law. "This is a huge decision," TIME correspondent Wendy Cole reports, adding that gay-rights groups had been braced for a defeat. "It will be very interesting to see how local municipalities that have anti-gay laws pending will deal with the ruling. Will they quietly withdraw them or step up opposition to gay rights." The Court rejected Colorado's argument that anti- discrimination laws give homosexuals special rights, saying it gave them "protections taken for granted by most people either because they already have them or do not need them." The Colorado amendment was approved...
Insult was added to injury when, in violation of its own rules and procedures, the Ad Board proceeded with its disciplinary hearing while the criminal investigation was still in process. Itagaki was forced to withdraw voluntarily in order to postpone his Ad Board hearing, because any testimony that he would have given to the Board could and would have been used against him by the prosecutor in the criminal case--a dilemma he would not have faced had the Ad Board adhered to its own regulation and waited until the criminal case were over...
Roughly speaking, Bosnia confronts three possible fates after the NATO troops withdraw...
After several faculty members voiced objections to the language and substance of the proposed change, Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 agreed to withdraw the proposal and resubmit it to the Faculty later this month...
What a thoughtful and eloquent piece by Krauthammer. How easily technology is transmitted from generation to generation, and how difficult it is to pass on painfully acquired wisdom. It is said, "Where illegality reigns by law, the rule of reason must withdraw." The current drive for assisted suicide can only be explained by our unwillingness to learn or by our inability to understand the wisdom of the past. HART C. BEZNER Waterloo, Ontario Via E-mail...