Political Grounds for Forgiveness

Political and Religious Differences as Grounds for Divorce

The manifold impact of Communism on our society has created variant problems for the judiciary. It is, therefore, not surprising that the issue of "communism as grounds for divorce" has been raised occasionally in divorce litigation. The recent case of Donaldson v. Donaldson1 dealt directly with this question. This was an action by the wife against the husband for a divorce. The defendant answe...

Coffee: grounds for concern?

C aff eine is the most widely ingested nonregulated substance on earth. A major portion of this drug is consumed as coff ee, with an annual production of over 7.8 million metric tons. Over 2.5 billion cups of coff ee are consumed worldwide each day. Given its popularity, it is hard to conceive of how Western civilization might begin each workday without this critical liquid allotment. Despite t...

New Grounds for Drinking Coffee

Follicular lymphoma: grounds for optimism.

The fact that follicular lymphoma is characterized by a specific immune phenotype and a nonrandom chromosomal translocation which may be detected at the molecular level makes it possible to design novel therapeutic strategies for curative therapy. Molecular markers may be used to test hypotheses. Some current causes for optimism are reviewed.

The Personal and the Political: Forgiveness and Reconciliation in Restorative Justice

At the center of this paper are three questions: in the absence of a religious worldview, can one gain access to the concepts of forgiveness and reconciliation, can reconciliation be achieved in the absence of forgiveness or does the former depend in some way upon the latter, and can we make sense of a restorative approach to justice in the absence of either forgiveness or reconciliation? To an...