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That would have been that, except for one detail. The certification of new Conservative rabbis is handled in the U.S. by the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City. The seminary faculty has grave doubts about whether to ordain women as rabbis. Not, as it happens, for religious reasons, but because they feel that fierce opposition by faculty traditionalists would divide and hence weaken the seminary. The faculty senate last December therefore decided to table action on the matter indefinitely...
...arrives, grave, studious and one heck of a soccer player. Bob feels stirrings of pride; the situation severely strains Sheila's extraordinary generosity. Jean-Claude is the sort of irritant around which pearls are formed. Still, when the Beckwith girls get wind of the truth, Sheila insists that the boy must go. There is the inevitable life-threatening situation and a conclusion with the distinctive aftertaste of artificial sweeteners...
...What I'm doing for Anderson is not a partisan effort," said Tribe, who is also doing legal work for the campaign of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass). "This is an effort on principle that has to be made. There are grave constitutional issues about laws that effectively prevent an independent campaign...
...Swedish economy stands to lose an estimated $500 million every week the strikes continue, but even more profound damage has been done to the country's image as a model welfare state. With cradle-to-grave benefits supplementing average incomes of $10,000 and only about 2% unemployment, Sweden's laborers have long been the envy of the industrial world. Strikes were rare, thanks largely to a 1938 pact between labor and management that made negotiations in all labor disputes obligatory without government intervention. Another factor in maintaining industrial peace was the cozy relationship between labor...
Muskie will start with some grave handicaps. Although he has served for six years on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he is no expert on U.S. policy abroad. Last week officials overseas were trying desperately to learn more about him. The Japanese Foreign Ministry hastily put together a two-page background memo on Muskie, but, admitted one official, "it only contained what has been in the newspapers...