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...rising star in a year of fallen priests, Bishop Gregory led the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in drafting a new, tougher policy to deal with clergy accused of sexual abuse. In December the Vatican approved it, albeit in modified form, but the heartbreak and the lawsuits will continue, and Gregory, whose home diocese is Belleville, Ill., must pray for guidance on the difficult road ahead...
...neighborhood of old godowns along Suzhou Creek, where artists have established a thriving colony. (Many of these warehouses will be demolished in coming months to make way for more space-efficient high-rises). Stop by the DDM Warehouse at 713 Dongda Ming Road, where the eclectic exhibits include real, albeit dead, cows and sheep inflated like giant beach balls and neatly planted rows of garlic that are presumably supposed to represent something deeper than, uh, neatly planted rows of garlic...
While representatives from Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) said they are supportive of students’ efforts to acknowledge their employees, HUDS spokesperson Alexandra McNitt emphasized that HUDS employees do receive holiday recognition from Harvard—albeit not in a monetary form...
...patient. There’s a Christmas story buried in this column, albeit a warped and disturbing and wholly abstract one—a postmodern sketch that differs a fair amount from Frosty, Rudolph and other, more familiar tales. This one involves lawsuits, a beating and Joseph Heller. And Harvard football...
...China has the cachet of being the region's new economic engine. And increasingly, Asia's industrializing nations see their future as being intertwined with a Middle Kingdom that will be buying more TVs and DVD players than the U.S. within a decade. America has a lot of old, albeit complicated, friendships in Asia. The challenge now: keeping them...