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PUMA members charge that both the wording and the enforcement of most prostitution laws are sexist, prohibiting women but not men from selling their bodies. Also, union members assert that police often arrest prostitutes while letting the customer go free. Members differ in their positions on shortterm legal reforms, but the group is adamant in its demand for ultimate decriminalization. It supports decriminalization as opposed to legalization because the former would eliminate legal hassles, while legalization might entail residual government restrictions...
...book is built on two circles of women; first Mira and her housewife friends in the '50s and later, Mira's grad student classmates at Harvard. Though the lifestyles and concerns of these two groups differ radically, both sets of women are forced to acknowledge that in twenty years, little has changed. The first group marries, almost automatically...
...irreformable" and require no "consent of the church." The bishops' lopsided 533-to-2 vote that day masked a deep division in the council and throughout the church. The immediate repercussions included the schism of "Old Catholics" and a wave of antichurch laws in Germany. Though scholars differ over where infallibility applies, the power has been invoked explicitly only once: in the 1950 declaration that Mary was assumed bodily into heaven. Even so, infallibility remains a fundamental obstacle to the reunion of Christianity...
Among the three groups, the candidates differ only slightly from each other. The Cambridge Convention has endorsed four candidates, an ideal affirmative action slate that includes the only two women and the only black in the school committee selection. Three of the slate members have graduated from or are now studying at Harvard. Glenn Koocher '71 sees himself as more pragmatic than the two women on the Convention slate. His leadership was crucial in the decision to combine Rindge Technical High with Cambridge High and Latin, producing a modern program in which students concentrate in one of five areas...
Therapists also differ widely about how the condition should be treated. The most common technique is behavior modification; its use is based on the assumption that agoraphobia is a habit to be broken. Treatment consists of gradually exposing the phobic patient to feared sit uations, first by having him imagine them, then by forcing him, for instance, to take longer and longer solo walks until the stress disappears. A more drastic technique, similar to throwing a baby into a pool to teach it how to swim, is known as "implosion"?a patient might be driven to a large empty...