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Such a rejoinder would not be universally applauded. But students observing the mock confrontation in Washington, D.C., considered the answer perfect. The scene was staged during a ten-week course called "Assertiveness Training," the most popular offering in George Washington University's division of continuing education for women. Taught by Psychologist Roland Tanck, the program is one of hundreds of "assertiveness" courses that have recently sprung up at universities and counseling centers...
...sectarian violence-the worst in more than a year-has occurred despite a ten-week truce between the militant Provisional Irish Republican Army or Provos and the British army. It comes as an ill-timed blow to Merlyn Rees, Britain's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, who is attempting to restart a political dialogue. On May 1, elections are scheduled for a 78-seat convention whose members are to work out a new government for Ulster's 1 million Protestants and 500,000 Catholics...
...Accredited. Womanschool is nonprofit and not accredited. Tuition is $60 for the ten-week courses, and as low as $25 for a six-session lecture series. So far the Sharpes have met the original costs of about $7,000 out of their own pockets. Says Sharpe: "I haven't bought clothes for my daughter for a year." They are applying to foundations and the Federal Government for help...
...university's faculty approved the ten-week proposal last week by a 3-to-1 margin...
...Last week Durrell, 48, began a ten-week tour of the U.S. and Canada−his first North American visit−"to spread the gospel among the gentiles of the zoo world" and to drum up funds for SAFE (Save Animals From Extinction), an umbrella group now being set up to foster Jersey-like reserves in this country. The gospel according to "Mr. D," as his devoted staff of 20 call him: "Zoos have to become breeding reservoirs...