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...religiosity infiltrated the school's unofficial vocabulary--cadets who did not attend chapel were known as the "heathen flight"--and presented some with down-the-rabbit-hole conundrums. As a cadet last year, Patrick Kucera, an atheist, tried filing a complaint about Christian proselytizing with the academy's Military Equal Opportunity (MEO) office. The MEO officer, says Kucera, not only discouraged the filing on technical grounds but also said he felt obliged, as a believer, "to try to bring you back to the flock...
...Washington. Hester, who received the award along with two men from her unit, plodded through enemy fire, killing at least three in an effort that resulted in the death of 26 or 27 insurgents and the capture of several more. "We're all soldiers, and we're all equal," she said...
Despite the favoritism issues in nearly every family, dissension is not inevitable, no matter which child becomes the caregiver. Good relations do not require equal contributions to caregiving, observes sociologist Matthews, but depend on siblings' doing what is reasonable, given their location and their other responsibilities...
...March 1999, Melodye W. Wehrung was named director of Equal Opportunity Programs and Compliance for the University, charged with preparing and publishing the Annual Affirmative Action Plan and with reporting the progress of hiring and retention of female and minority faculty members. Wehrung left the University in Spring 2002 and her position was terminated...
...What I understand by gender equality is that all persons should be treated equally,” Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth R. Wisse wrote in an October e-mail. “[This] argues not for equal opportunity but for equal outcome...