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...find it unfair for the church to cut a special deal for these 43 while it bars the return of thousands of men who left the priesthood to marry. San Antonio's Father Christopher G. Phillips, the first married priest to head a U.S. parish, rejects the double-standard complaint, noting that the ex-priests have broken vows taken voluntarily to observe lifelong celibacy. Phillips reports that reactions he has received from Catholic colleagues run the gamut from "great joy to utter disdain...
...marriage, says a friend, "she would not have kept it to herself." Adds another: "She was the kind of person who would tell you what she had for breakfast -- and how it tasted." In hundreds of interviews with people who knew the Stuarts, only one seemingly minor complaint has emerged. Carol once confided to Maureen Vadjic, who sometimes jogged with her on Saturday mornings, that she objected to Charles' staying out late on Friday nights. Says Vadjic: "She'd tell me, 'He came home late last night. I yelled at him, why do you go out? I'm pregnant...
Several dozen state leaders have been through management training programs at the Kennedy School. And among Dukakis' critics, it is a common complaint that the executive branch is populated with "Harvard hacks," Barrett says...
...critics say that being the brother of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor may have helped Day get the BLM contract. But, scoffs Day, "Sandra doesn't even drive 56 m.p.h. She didn't even know about this until it was a done deal." A more serious complaint about Day's techniques has been lodged by environmentalists who believe that wild horses ought to be just that -- wild. "They're nothing but a big herd of domestic horses," says Donna Ewing, president of the Illinois-based Hooved Animal Humane Society and a former colleague of Hyde's. Mustang...
...Germany, most are expected to be ditched for Volkswagens even as the drivers dream of Mercedes-Benz, Audis, BMWs and Porsches. And while Trabants account for less than 0.5% of the passenger cars in the Federal Republic, they have caused a stir. "Almost every day we get letters of complaint," says Bonn Environment Minister Klaus Topfer. "The Trabant is a nuisance...