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...blaming celibacy for everything that she dislikes in the church, Ranke- Heinemann follows a path already well trod by Protestants, historians and other feminists. However, she displays a polemical and sarcastic flair ("theology increasingly became the business of bachelors") and merrily marshals rather selective evidence of priestly misogyny through the ages. One 12th century divine urged men to remember that a pretty woman starts as "a foul-smelling drop of semen" and is destined to be "food for worms." Ranke- Heinemann's acerbic wit is less impressive when she turns to the modern era. She cannot, for instance, bring herself...
...Metro Airport last week suggests that airplane passengers face grave danger even on the ground. The accident, in which eight people were killed and 24 injured, raised a life-and-death question: If runways are so foggy that a pilot can miss two turns and wind up in the path of a plane rolling toward takeoff, why is the airport still open...
...know the term. She counseled spouses of alcoholics and tried to cope with her husband's drinking until she finally realized that she couldn't stop him; the two eventually divorced. "When I really let him go, I began to see that I could not control the life path of another human being." With this recognition, Beattie hunted for clues to her unhappiness and found codependency, an idea that had existed in relative obscurity in addiction circles since the 1970s...
Boskin said that the two main economic results of a resolution to the Gulf crisis would now include a fall in the price of oil, and a return to the "path of a sensible decline on defense spending...
These actions are squandering hopes for a new world order, leading us instead down a decidedly "old" path, one which Americans thought we had abandoned for good in 1975. The president is abdicating from a unique opportunity to fashion a system of collective, peaceful dispute-resolution. Instead, he has simply manipulated international goodwill to strongarm the Security Council into approving what would be essentially unilateral U.S. policework...