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...daughter calls and reads the text of the boy's letter to me. Explains that she has given the letter to the dean of the summer school. It has been arranged that she will spend the night at one of the assistant dean's residences with a girlfriend. She is at the girlfriend's dorm and will remain there until it is convenient for the assistant dean to take her to her residence. I'm told that the boy will be spoken to that evening by another dean of the school. Later on that evening, my daughter calls to confirm...
After Cummings devisted from his pre-approved text to a frank discussion of race, his school's activities director wrote to Harvard criticizing the student for a lack of character...
Delegates at the United Nations population conference may have reached a broad consensus on the issue of abortion -- but the Vatican is not likely to sign off on it. The new text places priority on making family planning available to reduce the need for abortions. It says abortion should not be encouraged as a method of family planning and its legality should be left to individual countries. Tim Wirth, the U.S. Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs, told TIME senior writer Eugene Linden that most countries had signed on to the compromise language. "We won," Wirth told Linden Thursday night...
...Vatican emerged as the lone dissenter over a compromise version of the U.N. population document on abortion, drawing a chorus of boos at the Cairo meeting from other countries' delegates who felt they'd already made big concessions to the Church. The Pakistani-drafted text, which expressed reservations over abortion, found favor with Iran and other Islamic allies of the Vatican's anti-abortion stance. It also drew no objections from Catholic countries. But the Holy See was unwilling to endorse a document with phrases such as "reproductive health" and "fertility regulation," which it considers veiled references to abortion...
...everything from the benign to the outre. 8-Track Mind, for instance, extols the aural experience of listening to eight-track tapes. ANSWER Me!, on the other hand, claims to tap "primal longings for violence," according to its 33-year-old publisher, Jim Goad. Issues have contained the text of an actual phone conversation between euthanasia advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian and a woman pretending to be terminally ill (in reality, Goad's wife), as well as articles about the North American Man/Boy Love Association, a pro-pedophilia organization. Goad is about to publish "The Rape Issue," which includes such articles...