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Scantify clad sunbathers weren't the only ones enjoying the sunny spring weather yesterday. Nearly 300 Harvard and Radcliffe alumni from nine classes converged on the Yard for the annual "Return to Harvard Day," billed by the Alumni Office as a pre-reunion event...
...modern parlance, "Look out for No. 1." Which, except for an affecting reunion with his dying mother (Gloria Foster), is exactly how Peer conducts his life...
...they won another, far more significant compromise. The plan includes an "escape clause" that allows Southern congregations, but not Northern ones, to leave any time between 1984 and 1991, with their church properties, if they are unhappy with the merger. This clause guaranteed sufficient conservative support to pass the reunion plan...
...Methodists and Baptists. Over the decades, the Southern church has been more conservative than the Northern, particularly on social issues, but in recent years those differences have begun to soften. The Rev. J. Randolph Taylor of Charlotte, N.C., Southern co-chairman of the joint committee that wrote the reunion plan, says that Presbyterianism was "a family that was split mainly by culture, politics and war. Slowly we've come to realize that we need each other...
...joint committee that prepared the merger plan had several delicate issues to contend with. For example, their proposal had to assure black Presbyterians that they would not be hurt by the merger. Racial tensions underlay the historic split, and the reunion would have been seriously flawed if blacks protested the agreement. Despite decades of separation and suspicion, says Taylor, "the amazing thing is that black Presbyterians are saying, 'We're going to trust you one more time.' " Another key issue was the policy of the Northern church requiring local congregations to elect women as lay elders. When...