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...That idea applies neatly to "Men of Honor." It is one of those dramas of peacetime military service in which a determined individual attains what he wants - in this case, master-chief rank and to be a master diver in the U.S. Navy - and in the process surmounts his own shortcomings and the completely predictable prejudice and near deadly hostility of the brass...
Thanks to pop culture, Catholics don't have a monopoly on nuns. The religious sisterhood has been widely appropriated as a vehicle for the comic, the dramatic and the sublime. Whoopi Goldberg, Susan Sarandon, Sally Field and Audrey Hepburn have all played roles in habits, proving, in the process, that no one looks great in a wimple. But to actually know what God's call sounds like; how feminist nuns manage in the still patriarchal post-Vatican II church; or how liberating it is for some brides of Christ to be untrammeled by children, sex and romantic love - none...
...four slots reserved for groups this year, three of them--Latinas Unidas, WLP and Women in Science at Harvard-Radcliffe--received money from the grants process...
...Women's Initiatives Network (WIN), a newly-formed network of already established campus women's groups, did not receive the funding it asked for through the grants process...
...Many of those who led the last intifada believe it was their efforts that saved Arafat and the PLO and made the peace process possible, and yet there's widespread resentment in their ranks at being sidelined politically once the exiled leaders arrived home...