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Fewer and fewer men, says Richard Schoenherr, a former priest, now married and a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Last year he coauthored a book called Full Pews and Empty Altars. By his projections, the number of active diocesan priests in the U.S., which stood at 35,000 in 1966, will have dropped 40%, to 21,000, 10 years from now. Schoenherr blames the shortage on mandatory celibacy, a long-standing discipline within church law that John Paul has refused to reconsider. After surveying male Catholic students in 1985, Dean Hoge, a sociology professor...
...stating his intention to carry this into the election year," says Washington correspondent Suneel Ratan. D'Amato has neither set a starting date nor specified which aspects of the land deal he would explore, but Ratan says "the core of what's left is the Arkansas-related stuff," chiefly Madison Guaranty. According to an exchange of letters in September, Ratan reports, independent counsel Kenneth Starr asked D'Amato to drop the investigation, and the senator refused...
...wonders crankily about society's fierce curiosity about how much money people make, and all these Top 10 lists of what movies the nation spent its leisure dollars on last week. He points out--enviously--that we do not know what Clint Eastwood was paid for The Bridges of Madison County...
...laugh without bringing down the whole fragile edifice of her film. She is helped a lot by a terrific cast, which understands that playing madness is very serious business, and by Richard LaGravenese's wonderfully modulated script. From The Fisher King through A Little Princess and The Bridges of Madison County, he has demonstrated a gift for conveying honest sentiment without permitting us to wallow in it, and he's at his craftsmanlike best here. The flaky charms of Unstrung Heroes will be lost on some hardened souls, and it does have its self-conscious, even slightly self-congratulatory moments...
...eight books on the reading list will include works by Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Calhoun, Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. DuBois. Students will also read several Supreme Court cases and excerpts from presidential speeches...