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...tournament semifinal match-ups were South Carolina against North Carolina and Pepperdine battling Notre Dame...
Novels by Dame Iris Murdoch are about as sturdy and reliable as a well-made trench coat. The reader can count on several things from these lengthy dissections of the British intelligentsia, and the new installment, her 24th, is no exception. One can be sure, for instance, that demon lust and his faithful servant, self-deception, will make fools of the witty, wise and powerful. There will probably be a maddeningly masochistic woman and a childish, manipulative man. A young person, usually a girl, will act as an unsparing force of nature...
...alone and longing to 'break down,' to clutch her breast." Terrible, for that matter, is a favorite word. So are appalling, awful, horrible, dreadful and all forms of the word dark. "These dreadful ideas, horrors from the past now poised to darken the future" is typical of Dame Iris at her most overwrought...
...that if Catholics ever became a majority in America, freedom of religion would be allowed to Protestants and Jews only out of political necessity. To many Catholics, nonetheless, Kennedy's argument that a President's religious views are "his own private affair" created what theologian James Burtchaell of Notre Dame University calls a "violent separation between morality and public policy...
...more nuanced exploration of the issue Kennedy spoke to can be found in Cuomo's 1984 landmark address at Notre Dame. The Governor argued that his refusal to campaign actively for a ban on abortion was analogous to the cautious stance of U.S. Catholic bishops on slavery prior to the Civil War. They declined to endorse a constitutional amendment banning the practice. Then as now, Cuomo argued, the issue was not the moral validity of Catholic teaching but whether, when and how to translate that teaching into public policy -- a problem for which there can never be one simple solution...