Word: considerations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The Soviet empire is disintegrating so quickly and in so many ways that * neither Moscow nor Washington has been able to adjust its policies fast enough to keep up with events. Last week, while the East German regime went into free fall, nationalists in the Estonian parliament prepared to consider...
History isn't written only in headlines, any more than news is all made by diplomats and politicians. Consider the ETHICS story on the efforts of gays to win legal recognition for their relationships. Or the report in IDEAS on Japanese author Shintaro Ishihara's blunt criticisms of American attitudes...
Q. Your work is replete with apocalyptic visions: drug addiction, cancer, death, sexism, cultural brutalities. Do you consider these to be the major concerns of the age?
Some of the most passionate talk, however, centered on what many bishops consider an equally critical problem: the growing shortage of priests. By the latest count, at least 1,000 of the 22,733 U.S. parishes have no resident clergy. The future looks even bleaker. The number of priests (now...
One large problem facing the domestic-partnership movement is a practical one: major U.S. insurance companies have thus far refused to offer group plans that include coverage for unmarried partners, partly because of the unspoken fear that the pool would include a higher proportion of gay males at risk for...