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Under Skocpol’s leadership, all advanced Ph.D. students are now provided with dissertation support and a new Graduate Policy Committee was formed to discuss policy and opportunities for graduate education...
...Heart to Heart with Pastors' Wives. "Friendship. Loneliness. You're surrounded by all these other people in the congregation, and you feel isolated." The Christian support group Focus on the Family concurs: loneliness is the top topic on its hotline for pastors' wives. After all, a PW can hardly discuss marital woes or child-raising tribulations with her husband's flock, and colleagues or other friends outside the church don't get life inside it. "The church becomes their husband's mistress, and they in many ways lose their identity," says H.B. London, head of pastoral ministries for Focus...
...said when asked about Skocpol’s future.Under Skocpol’s leadership, all advanced Ph.D. students are now provided with dissertation support, “best practices” are shared between graduate programs, and a new Graduate Policy Committee was formed to discuss policy and challenges and opportunities for graduate education.President-elect Drew G. Faust described Skocpol as “an outstanding leader of the GSAS,” and said today that she regretted that Skocpol had chosen to leave her position. “She has brought remarkable insight, energy, and analytical power...
...These aren't easy things to talk about. It's one thing to say that slavery, so long ago, was wrong; quite another to discuss our complicity in its lingering effects. That's why Delegate Michael L. Vaughn, who sponsored the Maryland House measure, says the apology isn't about reparations but opening a dialogue to bridge the racial divide. "Slavery has had a negative effect on relationships between people of color and non-color to this day," Vaughn, who is black, told me. "When we talk about matters of race, people are uncomfortable. I don't think this resolution...
...Here's the twist: The clinics in question do not provide abortion services, though they will discuss the procedure and make referrals. "He was being dishonest," says Kellie Rohrbaugh, director of public affairs for Planned Parenthood of Southwest Missouri, who says her office received a fax alerting them to the funding cuts 45 minutes before the governor's press conference. "We asked the administrator of the program if women had complained about going to Planned Parenthood, and she said we'd been a very good partner. We could get people in quickly, have them seen, refer them to treatment quickly...