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...women) in 2003, and it continues to accelerate 1 to 2 percentage points a year. Yet women make up only about 11% of the nation's clergy. This is not totally unexpected, since more conservative denominations do not ordain women and are exempt on First Amendment grounds from equal-opportunity laws. More startling, however, was a set of data on 15 Protestant denominations in a 1998 study called Clergy Women: An Uphill Calling. It showed that even in more liberal fellowships, female clergy tended to be relegated to specialized ministries like music, youth or Bible studies. Those who did achieve...
...Prodi confidante. Delors disagrees; after all, he had to contend with the doyenne of Euro-skeptics, Margaret Thatcher. He thinks his achievements had more to do with his approach than with the historical context. "The Commission should be of service to the governments and not try to be their equal," Delors says. "If [national leaders] don't question your loyalty, you can play the go-between and find solutions." If the President is unable to get a consensus among his team of commissioners, Delors says, the national governments tend to dismiss them as "a mere group of fonctionnaires." That...
Annan’s speech followed University President Lawrence H. Summers’ address, which touched on the curricular review, the planned Allston campus and the University’s commitment to stem cell research, but focused on University initiatives to promote equal access to higher education among people from all financial backgrounds...
Summers called on Harvard’s “social scientists” to increase equal access to education in the U.S. public school system...
...DIED. JAMES M. ROCHE, 97, a 44-year veteran of General Motors Corp. who rose from statistician to chairman and ceo; in Belleair, Florida. Roche was credited with expanding equal opportunity at the company, including bringing in GM's first African American board member, but he was also forced to issue a public apology in 1966 for the company's efforts to discredit consumer advocate Ralph Nader, whose book Unsafe at Any Speed questioned the safety of GM's Corvair...