Word: personal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case of "reverse discrimination" similar to the Bakke case [July 10]-the Untouchables' being given opportunities in jobs and universities-the Supreme Court in India ruled in 1975: "The concept of equality is that if persons are dissimilarly placed, they cannot be made equal by having the same treatment." I am a Brahman, and I agree with that decision and consequently disagree with the remarks of Justice Lewis Powell that "the guarantee of equal protection cannot mean one thing when applied to one individual and something else when applied to a person of another color...
...Bahamian exodus has encouraged a cutthroat smuggling trade, with boat captains charging from $50 to $500 per person and pilots of small planes demanding fares as high as $800 for illegal flights to small Florida airfields. One group of 13 Haitians paid a Bahamian boat captain $450 to take them from Nassau to Miami. But he put them ashore on a deserted island in the Bahamas, telling them, "This is Miami." After three days without food or water, they were rescued by a passing fishing boat...
...they've got to do it, which is not volunteering) to understand the social advantages of work voluntarily done for the good of other individuals, the group as a whole and, ultimately, one self. The benefits of volunteering can be entirely practical for the volunteer, of course: a person might, for example, learn much about becoming a professional librarian through volunteer work. But it is in the nature of things that the ultimate good of volunteering lies in a kind of metaphysics of sheer human usefulness. Herman Melville wrote: "We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected...
Sterling M. McMurrin, graduate dean at the University of Utah and leading Mormon liberal, gives Kimball personal credit for changing the church's stance. "He is a deeply spiritual person, not bureaucratic," says McMurrin. "He has suffered through this problem for 30 years." What if Kimball had not received the revelation during his tenure? Under the strict seniority system among Apostles, the next president in line is Ezra Taft Benson, 78, Ike's Agriculture Secretary. After him would come Mark E. Petersen, 77, former editor of the church-owned daily, Salt Lake's Deseret News. Both are considered much...
...idea, but some workers and union leaders seem skeptical. Says Mildred Corriveau, a vocational nurse at one of the 151 nursing homes owned by Pasadena's Beverly Enterprises, whose employees get 5% bonuses each month for showing up on time: "It's not enough money to persuade a person to come to work. I think we will still have as much diarrhea as we used to." For some folks, no reward can match the luxury of loafing...