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...group of bishops (male) confer with presidential candidates (male) to decide on laws to govern women's bodies...
...imagine that because a man has lived a highly dramatic life, the intrinsic excitement of that life can be transferred automatically to the stage. The fallacy is compounded if the man involved has exercised a visible impact on the history of his times. Supposedly, this ought to confer heroic stature on him. It rarely works that way, and I Have a Dream, a documentary series of vignettes based on the life and words of Martin Luther King fails because the drama has internal laws that transcend the most memorable of headlines...
Last week, following a three-day meeting with South African Prime Minister John Vorster in Zurich, Kissinger flew to London, Paris and Hamburg to report on the talks' progress to America's allies, then returned to Washington to confer with President Ford. Almost immediately, Ford and Kissinger decided that the Secretary should proceed to southern Africa to try his special style of shuttle diplomacy. In the meantime, Vorster will meet with Rhodesia's stubborn Prime Minister Ian Smith. Vorster is also scheduled to deliver a political address that may prove to be an important policy statement...
...hope of advancing a solution to the growing crisis in southern Africa, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger took to the road again last week. His itinerary: a brief stop in London to confer with British officials, then a flight to Zurich to meet with South Africa's Prime Minister John Vorster for the second time in less than three months. At the close of the three-day talks, Kissinger expected to fly back to London to report to British Prime Minister James Callaghan on the meeting's progress. Next week, said Kissinger's aides, the Secretary might...
...first, Gail's chief opponent on the faculty. He puns about her in Old English, lamenting that "A summa is icumen in," but he is unimpressed with her scholarship, and he is furious at her for getting an affirmative action resolution to hire women passed. They confer often, he giving her a tutorial on the politics of the place; then their intellectual flirtation turns into an affair. They teach a course together. When the students read Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance, Parker and Welter wear twin T shirts, hers labeled ZENOBIA (the romantic feminist who kills herself...