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Sound like a feminist tract? In fact, those observations come from the first draft of a major policy statement on women by American bishops. The 164-page paper, Partners in the Mystery of Redemption, was written by a panel of six bishops chaired by Joseph Imesch of Joliet, Ill., with the assistance of five scholars and two staffers -- all women. The text was released last week for reactions, after being unanimously approved by the U.S. hierarchy's 50-member administrative board...
...were initially formed in response to the social and political concerns that emerged during the Vietnam War," says Brad Connors, a member of the Association's Executive Board. "Male students needed passing grades from their T.A.'s to maintain a grade point average high enough to defer the draft. The T.A.'s had to take action around these issues, and the only power vehicle strong enough was unionism," Connors says...
Such quiet radicalism has at times unsettled followers so devout that they would readily give up their lives for their leader. In the draft constitution he drew up in 1963, the God-King included, against his people's wishes, a clause that would allow for his impeachment. Now he is considering new methods for choosing the next Dalai Lama -- adopting an electoral system similar to the Vatican's, perhaps, or selecting on the basis of seniority, or even dispensing with the entire institution. "I think the time has come -- not necessarily to take a decision very soon, but to start...
Today Bok, administrators, house masters, house committee and Undergraduate Council members will meet to discuss the final draft of the survey. Whitla said the survey will be released tostudents as soon as the masters approve it,probably this weekend...
...Draft documents in Geneva call for an end to outside aid for the rebels and U.S. officials have pressed for "symmetry," a simultaneous end of Soviet military aid to Najib's government...