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...command hard decisions as well as easy ones-acceptance of martyrdom, for example, when law morality would permit surrender or compromise. It can also say that certain acts are immoral which law ethics would consider tech nically valid. To the situationist, says Fletcher, "even a transient sex liaison, if it has the elements of caring, of tenderness and selfless concern, is better than a mechanical, egocentric exercise of conjugal 'rights' between two uncaring or antagonistic marriage partners...
...seriously sabotaged Ti's jewel collection. More than $18,000 in diamonds and pearls and other baubles were gone when the ball was over, and Edgar Hoover's boys immediately jumped in to investigate, along with some CIA people. The CIA explained that it is merely doing "liaison" for its old boss...
...avoided the theological controversies roiling today's church; Stewart plans to plunge into some of them, possibly even giving space to the new "God is dead" theologians. The Herald will also carry more news, both religious and secular. "In the past," says Stewart, "there has been an unfortunate liaison between religion and nostalgia on the magazine. Because of the change in general climate of the Christian community, I do feel religious journalism is going to have to reflect this change and keep pace...
Newcomer carved the 8,000-sq.-mi. Clark County district into five sections, assigned a "director" to each to serve as a liaison with his office, gave each principal a free hand to shape his own school toward centrally decided educational goals. He told them to concentrate on what the kids were learning rather than on what was taught and to let others worry about routine problems. "I don't pay my principals $12,-000 to $15,000 a year to see that the windows are clean," Newcomer says. His teachers and administrators are not protected by tenure...
...State Dept. record card." (Perhaps the titles given to the last two forms on the list--actually quite innocuous--are meant to discourage SDSers and other Commie types from applying. The same unconscious desire may have led the Danforth Foundation to name the representatives of their program "Liaison Officers...