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...They had attempted to take Vatican II at the Church's word, understanding its call for "full, conscious and active" liturgical participation by the faithful to suggest a Mass that people could truly understand and relate to. As a result, they developed a text based on "dynamic equivalency" to the Latin rather than word-for-word translation - in other words, a version that honored the spirit as well as the letter of the text. Among their changes was a replacement of some of the hes with more inclusive gender language...
...Steve Atchley is one of many health-conscious carnivores fueling the trend. "I got tired of telling my patients they couldn't eat red meat," says the Denver cardiologist. So three years ago, he launched Mesquite Organic Foods, which sells grass-fed beef to 74 Wild Oats stores nationwide. The company, which contracts with ranches from South Texas to the Canadian border, has quadrupled sales since December. Mesquite's ground beef is 65% lower in saturated fat and its New York strips are 35% lower than conventional beef, as measured by the USDA. "Any feedlot-fattened animal has a much...
...nine Justices will leave the Court. We just don’t know when or in what order.” Greenhouse described her job as “one of the best jobs in the world” and, citing recent rulings about the constitutionality of racially conscious decisions in public schools, said that “the Court never loses its capacity to surprise.” Jeffrey E. Jamison, a class marshal, said Greenhouse provided “both insight and wisdom.” “Since we’re all law school geeks...
...Betty Friedan’s time, fewer people were aware of the widespread frustration and discrimination affecting most women. It was “buried, unspoken,” as she famously wrote, and writing about the role of women in society was necessary to make people more conscious of the issues arising from gender inequality.But now, several decades later, it seems that this focus has led to an unintended consequence: a tendency to see everything in the context of women’s roles—how they are changing, progressing, regressing, or stagnating. And as a result, actions...
...Review were women, although Susan R. Estrich, the law professor and Democratic political operative, served as the Review’s president in 1977. It was then that the saga of the Law Review’s affirmative action program began, when the editors adopted a race- and gender-conscious policy by a 45 to 39 vote, to the vehement opposition of some faculty members. Several months of intense debate and negotiations ensued between the Review and the faculty, at the end of which the Review began for the first time considering factors other than merit in choosing its members.AN...