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...capital campaign theoretically raising enough money to create 90 new Faculty positions, and a genuine commitment on the part of the Harvard community to make Harvard a place that offers equal opportunity to women and men, right now is the time to encourage progress and goad it along with vocal support and the vigorous conviction that Rudenstine's goals are the right ones...
...coming back when their existential needs require them." But he rejects patrilinearity, and Conservative thinkers have suggested a communal triage that would concentrate on a congregation's observant "core" rather than chasing those on the "periphery." Meanwhile, Rabbi David Hollander, a leader of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis, a vocal minority group within the Orthodox movement (the smallest and most traditional American branch), fumes: "In a generation or two, we won't know who is and who is not a Jew. " The wrangle, never dormant, has been inflamed recently by Israeli religious politics and a statement by Hollander's rump...
Unfortunately, gay activists wish that I, and the rest of America, did care. A great segment of the gay-rights movement, or at least a vocal portion of it, has adopted an aggressive tone. This group wants mainstream America to stare homosexuality straight in the face without blinking. On one level, this tactic seems to work as an outing mechanism for homophobes. Those who are disgusted will be tagged as bigots and chastised for their sins. In another direction, it supposedly serves to force homosexual acts into a framework of normalcy. Ultimately, it is counter-productive...
...phytoestrogens offer boomers a better bargain? Many women clearly think so. "Close to a natural wonder drug," says UCLA breast-cancer surgeon Dr. Susan Love in her recently published Dr. Susan Love's Hormone Book (Random House, $25). At 49, Love, a vocal and controversial critic of hormone-replacement therapy, has entered perimenopause. To cope, she exercises daily, adds phytoestrogen-rich foods like soybeans and flaxseed to her diet and doses herself with black cohosh, an herbal source of phytoestrogens that comes in liquid or tablet form...
...fact, Faculty opinion appears highly polarized on the issue of Core reform, with several vocal professors espousing extreme positions, while the remainder are unsure of what the wisest course of action of action would...