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Indeed, a self-appointed group known as the Lay Commission on Catholic Social Teaching and the U.S. Economy, headed by former Treasury Secretary William Simon and Social Philosopher Michael Novak, seems intent on engaging the bishops in a struggle for the soul of the U.S. church on this issue. Two weeks ago, the group, whose 31 members include former Secretary of State Alexander Haig and J. Peter Grace, chairman of W.R. Grace & Co., put out its own letter on economics. Said the 119-page document: "Poverty is not primarily a problem for the state. It is a personal...
...lay critics argue that the bishops' letter fails to acknowledge the power of American capitalism to create jobs and paths out of poverty. Instead, they contend, the prelates call for Government solutions that already have been tried and found wanting. Said Novak: "In a document that's supposed to be antistatist, it's amazing how many passages are from a statist framework." Adds Simon: "What we need is a larger pie, not a redistribution of the existing one. We threw a trillion dollars at poverty, and we have more poverty now than ever before...
...game needing 13 points for 1000 in her career. She fell just five short, but her quest seemed to disrupt her team's play...Harvard women's soccer goalie-extraordinate Trace Whitley made her hoop debut in the closing minutes and brought down the house with a sneak-away lay-up...Harvard (1-0) plays Friday and Saturday in the Harvard Invitational...Senior Co-Captain Wendy Joseph sat out last night's contest with an injury but could be back as early as this weekend...
...next step, protection of passwords, is up to the user. Much of the security here, although exhaustively reviewed and debated by experts, is just common sense: "good" passwords (i.e. imaginative words that prowlers will have a difficult time guessing), frequent password changes, and constant monitoring of computer users. "The lay thing to implementing the systems," says Jeff Gibson director of Security at Digital Equipment Company. "If people don't change the passwords then if a computer manufacturer is making xyz's and every xyz has a password of 'hello' and someone knows he's talking to an xyz than...
...days after her death, her body lay in state at the Teen Murti House, the great mansion that had been Jawaharlal Nehru's residence during his years in power, while hundreds of thousands of her countrymen came to pay their respects. Early Saturday afternoon, her body was carried seven miles in a gun carriage to the banks of the Yamuna River, an area where Mahatma Gandhi as well as her father and her younger son Sanjay had also been cremated. A million Indians had lined the streets to see the procession, and millions more watched on television as her body...