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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Catholic Church's unwillingness to allow open discussion of homosexuality was furthered recently when it launched a successful campaign to pressure the producers of WBZ-TV Channel 4's "People Are Talking" program to cancel a scheduled segment dealing with the topic of lesbian nuns. In addition, the Cardinal has promoted anti-gay bigotry by publicly supporting the recently enacted Massachusetts Department of Social Service's blatantly discriminatory foster care policy which excludes lesbians, gays, single people and women who work outside the home from qualifying for foster placements...
...interest in my field, psychobiology. Our interaction has provided me with a level of scholarly excitement that has been greater than I anticipated and more powerful than I imagined. To the undergraduate and graduate students who worked in my laboratory, to students who took my courses and liked the topic, to the students who signed that marvelous petition and to all Harvard students I have had the pleasure of knowing, I would like to say thank you for making my stay here a special experience. If this sounds like a goodbye, it is. With sadness, but without regrets, I will...
...that a little mind is capable of. We give them a big head start for school." But others are dismayed by a parental mania to overstuff little minds that are not ready. At the recent convention in Atlanta of the National Association of Independent Schools, hothousing was a major topic among the 4,000 in attendance. Argued one of the panelists, Cleveland-based Educational Psychologist Jane Healy: "We're viewing children as a perfectible product into whom we can quickly and efficiently pour some learning...
Last week, however, Rome provided a strong signal that reunification is still very much a live topic and unveiled a specific suggestion on how to proceed. The information came in a four-page letter from the Pope's top ecumenical adviser, Jan Cardinal Willebrands, to the 24-member Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission, which is studying reunion. The Cardinal indicated that the Vatican is prepared to end centuries of refusal to recognize Anglican priests as legitimate, a stance that was formalized in Pope Leo XIII's 1896 decree that Canterbury ordinations are "absolutely null and void." If accomplished, that change...
...stands up to make another comment on the letter, only to be hushed by chairman Offutt. The Leverett House junior requests that delegate Trumbull come to the front of the room and secretly whisper the comment to chairman Offutt since the closed debate prohibits any further discussion of the topic...