The effectiveness of the Americans with Disabilities Act has been limited because its definition of disability is open ended and other terms such as reasonable accommodation are vague. The courts must settle test cases before it will be known if the law is meeting its goal. (SK)

Correctional officers (176 of 344 sampled) completed a task inventory that included 5 bogus tasks in a false reporting index. Degree of false report was related to the type of rating scale used. Overall, 45% indicated they performed tasks that were not part of the job. (SK)

Reviews statutory and case law on sexual harassment and offers guidelines for policy development in public administration, including defining and identifying harassment and establishing preventive and remedial measures. The bibliography contains 77 references. (SK)

Survey responses from 79 of 92 citizens serving on boards, committees, and commissions for Carson City, Nevada, showed that 80% were interested in receiving training. Topics of interest included identifying and analyzing issues, understanding community resources, parliamentary procedure, group process, and listening skills. (SK)

Investigates the issue of pluralistic readings and how they can be compared with each other, justified, and evaluated. Looks particularly at the five rhetorical analyses of Lucretia Coffin Mott's speech on women which follows this article. (TB)

Provides two contexts for rhetorical analyses of Lucretia Coffin Mott's speech on women: namely, the context defined Richard Henry Dana Sr.'s speech on women, which Mott heard and then responded to in her speech; and the context of contemporary feminist discourse which Mott comments on in an interesting way. (TB)

Argues that some of the complexity and tension in Lucretia Coffin Mott's speech results from the conflicting demands of the immediate situation and the speaker's broader views on theological and social issues. Suggests the speech's inherent tensions are not fully resolved, particularly those between a typological sense of history and a progressive…

Looks at Lucretia Coffin Mott's speech on women by approaching it from the standpoint of a conversation. Examines Mott's rhetorical persona. Shows how her stylistic choices reflect a conversational approach. Discusses how Mott draws on earlier participants in the conversation on women. (TB)

Suggests that the contrast between speeches by Richard Henry Dana Sr. and Lucretia Coffin Mott lies not only in their two views of the woman's place and role in society but also in the respective orientation toward Romantic idealism and Enlightenment rationalism. (TB)

Attempts to resolve an apparent contradiction between Hugh Blair's admiration for the Classical emphasis on rhetorical pathos and emotion and the apparent absence of that emphasis in the style of his own sermons. Characterizes the ways in which Blair's sermons are actually pathetic and explores the moral philosophy of those sermons. (TB)

Examines the subject of divine inspiration as it appears in the inventional theories of three prominent 19th-century homileticians: Austin Phelps, William Shedd, and George Hervey. Considers some of the general features of the age-old opposition between extemporaneous, "spirit-filled" preaching and premeditated, scripted preaching. (TB)

Offers a reading of St. Augustine that suggests his work as prescient of, and harmonious with, contemporary criticism of colonialist discourse rather than as an authorizing voice for European imperialism. Looks also at a Stephen Greenblatt essay that comments on the relationship between Christianity and national lust for empire. (TB)

Places the epistemology of the mystical strain of Jewish rhetoric embedded in the Kabbalah within the philosophical context of Platonic and sophistic rhetorics. Suggests that this contextualization helps to show the epistemological relationship between this Jewish rhetoric and these other rhetorics and to delineate the distinctive epistemology of…

Examines the rhetorical difficulties in describing mystical or religious experiences in an age skeptical of the transcendent and critical in terms of how language conveys meaning. Looks specifically at Patricia Hampl's language and examines a question raised by William James and Ludwig Wittgenstein: what difference did the mystical experiences…

Examines the rhetoric used in "Chuang Tzu" to disclose the sage's theory of rhetoric. Shows that revealing the mind of the sage is the main task of "Chuang Tzu." Discusses why neither direct description nor firsthand encounters with sages are well suited to disclosing the sage's mind. Examines how "Chuang Tzu" uses invented narratives to achieve…