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...many kids and teachers performing below par? As states like to point out, education is their responsibility. "Why weren't they educating kids in the first place?" asks Chester Finn, an Assistant Secretary of Education under Reagan and current president of the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Foundation. "Some states were doing a reasonably conscientious job--Florida, Massachusetts. But I have no sympathy for states like Utah that, as best I can tell, were not lifting a finger...
...aspects of prayer and ministry, including ordination. The failure of John Paul II to extend his compassion to Catholic women who have experienced a God - given call to priestly ministry is a forever lost opportunity of an otherwise stellar pontificate. Maria Marlowe Southeastern Pennsylvania Women's Ordination Conference West Chester, Pennsylvania, U.S. Improving Access As chairman of Britain's National Disability Council from 1995 to 2000, I would like to thank you for highlighting the problems disabled Europeans still face in gaining access to public and private buildings and services [April 11]. Some improvements are taking place. Officials of Britain...
MARIA MARLOWE -- SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA WOMEN'S ORDINATION CONFERENCE -- West Chester...
Late in the week, South Africa's Foreign Minister Roelof F. ("Pik") Botha met in Vienna with six Reagan Administration officials, including National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane and Chester Crocker, the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. U.S. officials refused to disclose precisely what was said at the meeting, which was called at South Africa's request and lasted for five hours. Certainly it included a review of the current state of emergency and the general situation in South Africa. According to U.S. sources, the meeting was blunt and serious in tone. American representatives emphasized the need for Pretoria...
...rare attributes raise The Making of a Public Man beyond the category of benign memoir. One is Linowitz's talent for spare, telling portraits. Among them: Chester Carlson, the arthritic, scholarly patent attorney who, in a one-room laboratory behind a beauty parlor in Astoria, Queens, invented the process that made Xerox a name to copy. Linowitz tells how, as the firm's lawyer and later its chairman, he helped Carlson and Joseph Wilson, an impossibly energetic Rochester businessman, launch a product that ended up creating its own demand. The now ubiquitous machine, says Linowitz, "was a case where invention...