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While churches are growing increasingly willing to accept the assistance of health-care experts, doctors and hospitals have been slower to seek out the help of spiritual counselors. The fear has long been that patients aren't interested in asking such spiritually intimate questions of their doctors, and the doctors, for their part, would be uncomfortable answering them. But this turns out not to be true. When psychologist Jean Kristeller of Indiana State University conducted a survey of oncologists, she found that a large proportion of them did feel it was appropriate to talk about spiritual issues with patients...
...diplomacy much like that between the U.S. and the Soviet Union during the cold war, to prevent disagreements from turning into open conflict. "The only thing we want from the United States is for them not to mess with our country," he says. But that would mean the U.S. accepting Iran's right to have a nonmilitary nuclear program, ending sanctions, apologizing for past misdeeds, shutting down covert operations and accepting Iran's right to support Hamas and Hizballah just as the U.S. supports Israel--a list unlikely to be welcomed by any administration in Washington. "If we accept that...
...Staff will have 45 days to accept or decline the offers, after which the University will reassess budgets before beginning any discussions about layoffs with the Office of the General Counsel and human resources officials...
...Peters repeatedly warned administrators to give no guidance on whether to accept the package, no matter how deeply they suspected that a staffer would be laid off after the early retirement window closed. According to Peters, any guidance suggesting knowledge of future employment status could pose legal problems for the University, because "then the entire program could be seen as involuntary...
Kagan’s opposition to the Solomon amendment, a law that requires military recruiters access to universities that accept federal funds, also drew fire, but she again brushed off the criticism, saying she would set aside her own beliefs as solicitor general...