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...informal liaisons among Filipino believers. Father Melchor Dano, pastor of a parish in Tondo, last month performed a mass wedding for 36 couples who had been living in sin. He followed that with a mass baptism for their children-so that all concerned could greet the Pope as bona fide Catholics...
...does have a key exception: dismissals may be justified if a certain age level is a bona fide occupational qualification. A television actor, for instance, could become too old to play a middle-aged character in a long-running series. Courts have also upheld age ceilings where public safety is at stake, as in the case of bus drivers. Even in such exceptions, deciding at what age to draw the line is a problem. Dan Williams, a senior attorney at EEOC, predicts that ceilings set by municipalities for police and fire fighters will lead to major legal battles...
...seems to see things Thomsen's way. According to IRS standards in use at that time, any private school starting up or expanding in an area undergoing mandatory integration would normally have been denied tax-exempt status. Satisfied that the Palisades Village School was operating "in a bona fide racially nondiscriminatory manner," the IRS granted the new school a nonprofit, tax-exempt status. "I don't think they're racist," says Walter Young, principal of two of the three public elementary schools in the local school district...
...board member Fred Cohn said he was "convinced Harvard has made a bona fide effort to help the city of Cambridge with its housing shortage." He added that the University ought to be awarded the permits because "private higher education is the principal export industry of New England," and that institutions like Harvard had helped the region weather the recent recession...
...DANIEL PETRIE'S Resurrection, Ellen Burstyn plays Edna McCauley, a bona fide, clinically tested, laying-on-of-hands faith healer. Her power defies explanation; it may be God-given, it may involve the psychic channeling of electrical impulses. Edna herself doesn't know how the power comes to her. When pressed, she says simply, "I offer it to you in the name of love...