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...Washington Post reporter Elsa Walsh, who set out to penetrate the ambivalences of three accomplished women as they struggle to balance their professional and private lives. Besides conductor Worby, the book includes chapters on ABC television personality Meredith Vieira and Dr. Alison Estabrook, chief of breast surgery at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in Manhattan. But it was the Worby chapter that provoked its own backlash last week, not only because of Worby's frank discussion of her sexual history (and the tattoo emblazoned on her upper right thigh), but because she demystifies the role of first lady for women...
...Grawemeyer Award, which is given jointly by the University of Louisville and the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary seeks "to honor and publicize insights into the relationship between human beings and the divine and the ways this relationship may empower human beings to attain wholeness, integrity or meaning...
...encourages readers toward an 'imagined community' of diverse people, interdependently working to solve mutual, global concerns," said David Hester of the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and director of the Grawemeyer Award in Religion...
DIED. MAGGIE KUHN, 89, crusader against age discriminiation; in Philadelphia. Kuhn helped found the Gray Panthers in 1970 after having been forced to retire from a job with the Presbyterian church...
...families still waiting for word, it was hard to know which was worse, the uncertainty or the news that another body had been found. Over at the First Presbyterian Church, survivors and families passed around photocopies of pictures, snapshots or posters with descriptions of husbands and wives, sons and daughters, hoping someone might have seen them alive. They faxed descriptions to hospitals. On Thursday, at least 300 people flooded First Christian Church bearing dental records, descriptions of birthmarks or other features that might help in the dreaded identification process. Forensic dentists, fingerprint squads and X-ray teams combined to examine...