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...years that followed, there were more big cases and big financial settlements--an estimated $1 billion or more--but only halfhearted efforts to adopt firm guidelines on how to handle the problem. Early on, the Rev. Thomas Doyle, then a canon lawyer at the Vatican embassy in Washington, drafted a 100-page report advising that offenders be moved away from kids, that victims be succored and that the public be told the truth. But whenever a fresh case erupted, the church said it was an aberration, an isolated example, one bad apple. Or media bashing by an anti-Catholic press...
...recent article in the Jerusalem Post, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz proposes that Israel adopt an innovative counter-terror policy: institute a temporary moratorium on retaliatory attacks for acts of terrorism, give the Palestinian Authority five days to prevent terror attacks, and then begin to destroy entire Palestinian villages in response to each act of Palestinian terrorism. It is appalling to hear a supposed civil libertarian advocate such a blatantly racist course of action; it is inconceivable that Dershowitz would propose collective punishment if the victims were Americans or Jews...
...Gatos, Calif., and its hubs in Boston and Los Angeles. Last week, as Hastings filed with the sec to take his company public and dreamed of raising a cool $115 million, there was only one thing that could spoil his party: the possibility that Blockbuster might soon adopt his business model...
...millions of cuties in animal shelters begging for love. It was sensible of you to note that "given that more than 5 million unwanted cats are destroyed each year, it's hard to justify spending tens of thousands of dollars to clone a new one. Why not just adopt?" Who needs cc when there are so many originals out there and not enough homes for them all? EILEEN K. BLAU Mayaguez, Puerto Rico...
...Guide-style evaluations of tutors are long overdue, and we hope that more Houses will adopt them as one way to improve undergraduate life and advising at Harvard...