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...compare with this project. Its chief writer, staff director and consultants are all women. The bishops sponsored open hearings in 100 dioceses and 60 colleges, met with 24 national women's organizations, received 10,000 pages of written testimony and amassed opinions from 75,000 women in all. The text has been revised several times, with drafts made public and debated in 1988 and 1990. The Vatican, leery of the discussion's direction, insisted that representatives from the U.S. hierarchy attend a conference in Rome last year to hear out papal advisers and bishops from 13 other nations on women...
During this arduous process, voices of complaint from American women have been weeded out of the text and papal pronouncements brought to the fore. The current draft proclaims sexism to be a sin, in church or society. Dioceses are asked to establish women's commissions. Willingness to treat women as equals is a criterion of fitness for the priesthood. But the text drops previous urgings that the Vatican immediately consider letting women join the order of deacon, thus permitting them to perform many pastoral functions also filled by priests. The text weakens proposals for allowing women preachers and altar girls...
...artistic director, Richard Eyre, is modernish -- 1930s -- in its dress and visual vocabulary. It is meant to evoke 20th century memories ranging from Oswald Mosley's English fascists to the Ceausescu and Marcos regimes. Yet it is entirely faithful to the politics and psychology of Shakespeare's text. No production in memory has better evoked the terrifying instability of this buccaneer world. Rather than the embodiment of motiveless malignity, Richard is simply a skillful and ruthless practitioner of the techniques of his backstabbing times. While invested by McKellen with all the understandable self-pity of a man whose mother reviled...
...first. "I gave thefirst exam to all classes at once. Four hundredexams! I never finished correcting them all. Afterthat I staggered the tests." The laboratory was sohot that Quist says he turned the lights off tokeep the heat bearable. He arranged field trips tolocal factories and taught the text in his ownorder. "I love teaching," he says. "I'd like to doit again someday...
...debate, the Earth Charter was abandoned and replaced by a woodenly written declaration filled with the kind of pious promises ("eradicating poverty," "eliminat((ing)) unsustainable patterns of production and consumption") that world leaders often make but never keep. In what is perhaps the worst example of bureaucratic obfuscation, ^ the text at one point endorses the promotion of "appropriate demographic policies" -- the nearest negotiators could come to confronting the explosive issue of population control...