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...grown from 300 in 1979-80 to about 460 this year. Slightly less than half of students follow the three-year Masters in Divinity course, which ordinarily leads to ordination in one of the Protestant or Catholic faiths. The more purely academic degree, the Master of Theological Studies (MTS), usually requires two years and attracts another third of the student body. Two smaller degree programs-the one-year Master of Theology and the two-year Doctor of Theology-involve about 100 students altogether...
...strong points of the Divinity School is that there's a good mix of people who have primarily academic interests and people who have more practical aims," says Richard E. Cohen, another second-year MTS candidate who studies the Jewish-Christian relationship...
...immediate situation, the U.S.A. is partially responsible and should dialogue in the interests of everyone concerned without creating additional victimization of the innocent. Georges Thierry de Dreyer, MTS The Divinty School
Skis, in a way, are like vodka. Apart from the very top and bottom of the line, many brands are similar in quality; yet a special mystique makes it In to buy and use a certain one. Nowadays, from Mt. Fuji to Mt. Blanc-with many mts. in Colorado and Vermont in between-the fashionable ski is "Rossi," fond nickname for the product of Skis Rossignol, a company with headquarters in the French alpine town of Voiron. Rossignol, counting its Dynastar subsidiary, sells more than 16% of the world's skis-1.5 million of the 9 million pairs marketed...
...Catholic Church. The Church offers few professional job opportunities for lay people. In Coffin's words, "the only thing you can do is religious education." Consequently, the Church pays less attention to students training for non-clerical religious careers than the students would like. Coffin switched from the MTS to the M.Div. program to open other career options besides college teaching, but still is uncertain about her future. She foresees no special problems being a woman entering the Church's male-dominated organization. "Lay men are in just as much trouble as lay women. They're getting nowhere either...