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Wedged between Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes and outgoing University President Lawrence H. Summers, Gross spoke to the assembly for approximately 10 minutes before fielding questions from the audience...
...Anti--abortion-rights activists say they are deeply disappointed by the about-face. "It's a capitulation to the strong-arm tactics of the abortion lobby," says Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America, a Christian public-policy group...
...Right now there's so much happening in the Middle East that it's top of mind, it's not by accident," says Paris-based shoe designer Christian Louboutin, who recently returned from a tour of Riyadh and Dubai. Miuccia Prada, who showed her Miu Miu collection in Paris, at first resisted pegging her work this season as political. But she admitted that, for the first time, she felt the urge to "take more consciousness and more power for women." Her clothes--black anoraks and heavy shoes--reminded her of the more reactive '60s and '70s, she said...
...While Wal-Mart has never publicly objected to Plan B on principle (it says Plan B simply isn?t in great demand), it has nevertheless faced intense ideological pressure. ?We?ve had women?s groups who felt that we should be selling it; we?ve had conservative Christian organizations that felt Wal-Mart was the last one taking a stand again the drug,? says Mona Williams, a spokeswoman for the company. Wal-Mart has been considering the change for months; at a meeting in January of store managers, several lobbied for adding Plan B to the usual stock, arguing that...
Yesterday, on Ash Wednesday, the Christian practice of Lent began: forty days of preparation for Resurrection—the zenith of faith. While in church, I witnessed an eclectic parade of coordinated bodies in procession toward the altar, where the priest marked each person’s forehead with a cross of ashes. By acknowledging every human’s origin and end in ashes and dust, we are moved toward more than a month of fasting and spiritual growth. In the spirit of ecumenism, similar practices are common to different religions and ways of life: Islamic Ramadan, Jewish...