Word: documention
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...report pushes greater accountability for College officers. Deans, house masters and Allston Burr senior tutors should undergo periodic reviews, the 78-page document says...
...consensus over a policy document at the population conference fell apart today with the Vatican's insisting the statement was pro-abortion. Seven countries followed the Vatican in condemning it, despite the fact that its wording had been agreed to in a Tuesday consensus aimed at pleasing conservative critics. Some countries are now losing patience with the Pope's diehard stance, which has made allies of the Vatican and Islamic fundamentalists. Said a delegate from Ghana: "I'm a Catholic, but I think the Vatican is behaving just like the proverbial ostrich...
...Vatican emerged as the lone dissenter over a compromise version of the U.N. population document on abortion, drawing a chorus of boos at the Cairo meeting from other countries' delegates who felt they'd already made big concessions to the Church. The Pakistani-drafted text, which expressed reservations over abortion, found favor with Iran and other Islamic allies of the Vatican's anti-abortion stance. It also drew no objections from Catholic countries. But the Holy See was unwilling to endorse a document with phrases such as "reproductive health" and "fertility regulation," which it considers veiled references to abortion...
...works the counter in a local coffee shop. Monique Toulouse says she has her name -- she says it is her name -- on a waiting list for one of the 108 housing-authority apartments in the city ($450 a month for a one-bedroom), but her position on the document is more than a year down from the top. Before winter, she declares, knowing that it is a foolish declaration, "I'm determined to find a $250 rental." Kevin Buckanaga, a server in a coffee shop, was happy to be subleasing a shed for $65 a month until he was evicted...
Timothy Wirth, a U.S. Under Secretary of State and a leader of the American delegation going to Cairo, denies that the U.N. plan would impose Western values on other cultures. Argues Wirth: "Everything in the document is done within the framework of national laws, cultures and religions. The U.N. is not going to dictate what a culture...