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Papal politics, unlike presidential politics, is never a winner-takes-all scenario. And that makes the Vatican unlikely to abandon its effort to beatify Pope Pius IX, despite protests by liberal and Jewish groups. The latter are incensed that the current pontiff, so deeply committed to healing the church's relationship with the Jews, would propose sainthood for a man who in the mid-19th century forced Rome's Jews back into the ghetto and stripped them of their civil rights after having initially allowed them greater freedom. Further fueling the protests is the case of Edgardo Mortara...
...While John Paul II may struggle to defend Pius IX on his treatment of the Jews, the 19th-century pontiff's beatification is being championed by the conservative bishops John Paul appointed to the Curia. Beatification, an advanced step along the way to canonization (sainthood), is one of a number of battlegrounds in the church's centuries-old conflict between theological liberals and conservatives, in which neither side can afford to drive their opponents entirely from the fold - a church that suffered life-threatening breakaways first by the Eastern Orthodox and then by the Protestants can afford no further splits...
...award winner as currently selected must be a woman. However, despite a similar legal review, the College will be giving the Paul Revere Frothingham Scholarship and similar prizes which list among the characteristics "manliness" and are given only to men. While we support the University's concern for Title IX and its desire to see all prizes open to male or female recepients, we consider the short-term decisions made for this year unfortunate. If eligibility for any of the prizes is, according to the donor's wishes, gender-specific, we urge the College to designate an equivalent prize...
...prize was subject to legal review this spring--along with all of Harvard's seemingly gender-specific Commencement prizes--to check for compliance with Title IX of the 1972 educational amendments to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title IX bars educational institutions that receive federal aid, like Harvard, from discriminating on the basis...
...much faster to take advantage of the possibilities of high tech, and the Frankfurt market has turned itself into Europe's NASDAQ - the center of the continent's burgeoning technology investment sector." NASDAQ appears to have recognized that reality, too, by signing a memorandum of understanding with the new iX company to refrain from opening a competitor and to allow the trading of share flotations...