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This kind of legal exposure and the press that comes with it have made it hard for the church to deal with sexual abuse by priests as an internal matter, as it once did. If the bill passes, Massachusetts would become the 12th state to require priests to report child sexual abuse. The church, like the A.B.A., loosened up only so far. The archdiocese would not back the bill until it was assured that priests would still be exempt from revealing anything--including sexual abuse--they learned in confession...
...southern Vietnam later converted to Islam en masse, and their ancient culture was nearly forgot-ten. "Do you really mean the Chams once had an empire?" asks an incredulous 69-year-old Tran Dinh Liu, an ethnic Cham Hroi farmer who lives less than an hour from a 12th-century Cham tower near Qui Nhon. "I don't know any history of the nation except the revolution," he says, glancing at the communist People's Committee official who is in attendance...
...flouting authority. Except for 1992 when a raid on a tanker belonging to former President Suharto's wife prompted mass arrests, he has successfully evaded his pursuers for 25 years. Says the pirate king: "Our culture is a water culture and there have been pirates here since the 12th or 13th century. You have to have courage and spiritual strength to be a pirate and Palembang men have it." And discipline? The pirate king almost chokes laughing...
...past two decades its museums have been robbed of hundreds of their most valuable items. In an infamous break-in at the National Museum in Ile-Ife in 1994, thieves with an inside contact smashed open 11 display cases. Their haul, which included some of the best-known 12th and 13th century Ife terra-cotta and brass heads--all uninsured--was worth about $200 million. It was the museum's third burglary that year. Nigerian traders also target villages like Kawu, buying artifacts from locals or encouraging rudimentary digging. "It's not exactly excavation," says Abiye Ichaba, head of research...
...Brazill was convicted of second-degree murder in May for the shooting death of his favorite teacher, he rode back to the Palm Beach County Jail in silence. Tried as an adult, he had faced the possibility of being found guilty of Murder One. As he strode into the 12th-floor cell he shared with other youths accused of violent crimes, the Florida teenager could hardly imagine the life in prison awaiting him when the judge eventually sentenced him. "What up, Nate?" the others greeted him. "Saw you on TV. Coulda done worse." He laid on his bunk, crying alone...