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Flexible work arrangements and the ability to take extra time off are attractive lures in the current economy. Sometimes they give employees the chance to develop the idealistic side that earlier generations felt constrained to repress when they put on a business suit and tie. Bonnie Weisner, 34, a senior consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Fort Lee, N.J., took advantage of the firm's flextime policy because she wanted to pursue an outside interest--becoming an emergency medical technician with a volunteer ambulance corps. In September she took a 40% pay cut and went from a 55-hr. workweek...
...burnout stage and felt I needed to do something different in my life, but I wasn't too quick to get up and leave my job, since they gave me the option to do something like this," says Weisner, who has worked at the company since she graduated from the State University of New York at Binghamton 12 years ago. "I guess I wanted to feel like I'm giving back to my community in a tangible way," she adds. Weisner had toyed with the idea of going to medical school when she was an undergraduate. "If I can save...
...defining the Context of Art: 1968-1997, The Second Investigation and Public Media" at MIT's Weisner Visual Art Center displays Joseph Kosuth's development as philosopher and social commentator, but, overall, lacks visual intrigue. Housed in a small, dimly lit room, the show consists of three large projections that cover two walls, black lettering on the sole window and approximately 25 striking black-and-white photographs...
...less whether women ought to be made priests than how to preserve unity within the church and ecumenism without. Some diehards held that female Apostles were absent from Scripture and that since priests who administer the Sacrament represent Christ, they should be, like him, male. Objected the Rev. Elizabeth Weisner of Washington, B.C., one of some 150 women who have already been ordained: "A priest is a priest is a priest. The Sacrament is unchanged by the person celebrating it." A bigger stumbling block was opposition from the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches, particularly since Anglicans like to consider...
...groups and the press at the Parker House in Boston; attended a $10-a-head fundraising cocktail party given in his behalf; taped interviews with the Christian Science Monitor and other local press groups; was the guest of honor at a dinner reception given by MIT's President Jerome Weisner; and addressed various other political groups, including Citizens for Participation in Political Action...