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Until recently, the Chairman of the JCS was little more than a mouthpiece for the lowest common denominator that could be agreed upon by the heads of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines. But since the Goldwater-Nichols Reorganization Act of 1986, the Chairman has become superior to the individual service chiefs, with his own staff of 1,600 and enhanced status and authority. "Goldwater-Nichols," says Lawrence Korb, director of public-policy education at the Brookings Institution, "changed the Pentagon like nothing else in recent memory...
...Islam also enshrined certain discriminatory practices. As decreed by the Koran, the value of a woman's testimony in court is worth half that of a man's, and men are entitled to four spouses, whereas women can have only one. Males are superior, some argue, because the Koran says they have "more strength...
...didn't claim that women were morally superior. But they had been at the receiving end of prejudice long enough, we thought, to empathize with the underdog of either sex. Then too, the values implicit in motherhood were bound to clash with the "male values" of competitiveness and devil-may-care profiteering. We imagined women storming male strongholds and, once inside, becoming change agents, role models, whistle-blowers. The hand that rocks the cradle was sure to rock the boat...
...rising rates of mid-life divorce are swelling these financially battered ranks. The advent of no-fault and equitable-distribution divorce laws, which have greatly reduced alimony payments, have left many full-time homemakers out in the cold. Says Curtis Tillman, chief judge of the superior court in DeKalb County, Ga.: "Society no longer believes that a husband should support his wife. Now juries and judges see things as a partnership...
...challenge was familiar to King Solomon: how to choose between two women, each declaring herself to be the child's mother. This time, however, one claimed motherhood because she had donated her genes, the other because she had donated her womb. That was the issue last week before California Superior Court Judge Richard Parslow, who broke new legal ground by awarding a test- tube baby to the genetic parents rather than to the surrogate mother. The woman had contracted to carry it for $10,000 and then changed her mind, saying she had "bonded" with the infant. "A three-parent...