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Douglas F. Curtis '84 and Neil H. Buchanan, a second-year graduate student in economics, defeated a team from Amherst in the tournament's final round Saturday at the University of Chicago to clinch the victory...
...trying to legislate anything," says Constance H. Buchanan, the program's director. "We want to provide the information and expertise to supply the resources for change and help motivate people towards change...
...Religion has played a powerful role in shaping women's social roles through history and in shaping views of gender," says Buchanan, explaining that the program's research projects seek to investigate this role. Much of the work, she notes, consists of recovering historical material that has either been ignored, altered or misinterpreted over the centuries. This year, for instance, Catherine Prelinger is examining the role of the deaconess in the 19th century, research that demonstrates the role religion played in encouraging women to work outside the home...
...program's broadest effects, Buchanan suggests, is not simply in theology but in the general discipline of women's studies. "One of the things that has been discovered," she says, "is that you really can't study women without studying religion...
Most political journalists seem to foresee continual frustration for Reagan in Year 3. Right-wing columnists like Buchanan and William Safire hope that Reagan can reassert his mastery with a State of the Union speech this week that stoutly repeats his old stands. Then there is the Times's Scotty Reston, grandee of the press corps, a septuagenarian like Reagan, a man more bemusedly tolerant these days than alarmed. He thinks Reagan will compromise when he has to, as he has done before, and then will "probably announce with a smile . . . that he's going home...