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...colleagues. "Some people are complaining about their area of placement when they should be thinking about the kids they are doing this for," says Michael Yudell, 22, a Tufts graduate. TFA itself has come in for disparaging comments from corps crusaders who feel it has not done enough to recruit minorities -- although 106 of the first crop of trainees are African American, Hispanic or Asian American. "The program needs to be more diverse," insists Richard Rivera, 22, a Syracuse graduate of Puerto Rican descent...
...that can be led by nonordained parish leaders in priestless congregations. To Schoenherr, a former priest, such measures are no more than stopgaps. As he sees it, the chief problem is celibacy. Eventually, he maintains, the church "will have to accept the ordination of married men in order to recruit and retain." But that is not likely to happen any time soon. Although a majority of American Catholics believe that priests ought to be allowed to marry, Pope John Paul II has repeatedly and adamantly reaffirmed the ancient requirement of celibacy for priests of the Latin rite...
...know I am a bargaining chip," says Ibrahim Bazi, 27, a Hizballah recruit from the town of Bint Jebeil. Like all the other prisoners, his black hair is cropped short and he wears a dark blue uniform and plastic slippers. His unshaven face reveals little emotion. "My only hope is that all hostages will be released and that I will be part of the deal...
...Conant was Harvard's first 20th-centurypresident who had grown up in the 20th century,and during his tenure, he did much to dispel theBrahmin tone of the Lowell administration. Heencouraged admissions officers to venture beyondNew England and recruit promising students fromaround the country. On the faculty, Conantwelcomed not just gentleman humanists, but alsothe scientists and mathematicians who pioneeredthe development of the atom bomb...
Although he met with Harvard hockey Coach Ronn Tomassoni, Harvard's recruiting ace, and stayed with hockey players during his pre-frosh visit, Chunk was never really a "recruit"--he never really received a lot of attention...