Word: rotaryism
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For by almost every reckoning, the state, if not quite Wonder bread, is at least whole wheat: overwhelmingly white and largely Protestant and middle class. Only about 2% of Iowa's 2.8 million people are black or Hispanic. The state's proportion of foreign-born residents is equally minuscule. At...
Always witty, Dole has been working overtime to keep the sting out of his quips. But the down-to-earth manner of the new, improved Dole does not always mesh with that of the crafty insider. Political Analyst Kevin Phillips complains, "The image you get is that he drinks milk...
Most of the major international service clubs have always been of, by and for men. Even after the U.S. Supreme Court decided in 1984 that states could force the Jaycees to admit women, three of the biggest clubs -- Rotary, Lions, Kiwanis -- stuck to their bans on female membership. But since...
About week ago she went out for drinks with her sophomore year History and Literature tutor and the three women who were in the class with her. One of the women had won a Rotary fellowship, the second had one a Marshall scholarship, and the third was going to Yale...
Like many other private men's organizations, the nearly 20,000 worldwide chapters of the Rotary International are not all that private. That was one reason why last week the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously upheld the use of a state antidiscrimination law to bar Rotary International from ousting a California...