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...turmoil at Sacred Heart began Jan. 28, when Principal Honora Reardon and three fellow Sisters of Mercy, Catherine Colliton, Justine Colliton and Mary Rita Furlong, were presented with dismissal notices from the school superintendent of the diocese of Manchester. Without providing specifics, the memorandums maintained that the nuns had displayed unacceptable "cliquishness" and "lack of cooperation" with the parish priests and staff, that their contracts would not be renewed, and that they should consider resigning...
Stanford Economist Rita Ricardo-Campbell emphasizes the most damning Social
...HARD to believe that the South of William Faulkner. Gone With the Wind and the Ku Klux Klan could produce Rita Mac Brown. In her latest novel. Southern Discomfort--which is filled with her signature wit and warmth--Brown follows several of Motgomery. Alabama's more interesting citizens as they wander through a sexual and social labyrinth as only a candid, radical feminist...
...wealth and race as well as sexuality. Blue Rhonda, Hortensia and Catherine alternate in the role of protagonist, but the book lacks on central character with whom a reader can identify. This results in a more distanced, although no less sensitive book. Perhaps Southern Discomfort has less warmth than Rita Mae Brown's earlier efforts, but it is certainly a fun read...
...last week brought a frightening reminder of what every journalist in El Salvador knows beneath the bravado: that danger is more than barroom folklore. Four Dutch TV newsmen set out to film rebel encampments near the dusty village of Santa Rita in northern Chalatenango Department. They arrived to meet guerrilla contacts at 5 p.m. Ten minutes later, villagers heard prolonged shooting. Eight people died. The four Dutchmen were shot repeatedly at close range, and their bodies were quickly removed to the capital by Salvadoran soldiers. The army claimed that they died in a firefight, but most reporters suspected that instead...