Word: altar
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...serious economic toll. In a landmark agreement in Ireland last week, the church offered $110 million to compensate thousands of victims of sexual and physical abuse that occurred over several decades in church-run schools there. Meanwhile, a Tucson, Ariz., diocese settled for an undisclosed sum with former altar boys who said they were molested by their priest, a quiet deal that typifies how these cases are handled in the U.S. Less common is the very public court battle of John Geoghan, a priest who has so far cost the Archdiocese of Boston more than $10 million to settle just...
...young nephews, Christopher, 12, and Brandon, 7, attend St. Clare's School, a nearby Catholic day school connected to a church that has been burying firemen for months. The boys have heard the dirges of the pipe-and-drum corps from their desks; their classmates have served as altar boys. Mike's eldest brother, Robert, left Staten Island years ago, but the tragedy followed him: he works as a psychologist in the public schools of Middletown, N.J., the quiet bedroom community that buried 34 residents; six of his students lost a parent in the disaster...
...deferential Japanese housewife is at the end of her rope. Her hopeless husband is unemployed, her once promising children are bugging on mushrooms and even the dreamy Koizumi looks likely to leave her at the economic altar. How does she respond? By taking her destiny in two petite hands and yanking?hard. Tug-of-war, the sport of ancient warriors and sadistic gym teachers, is enjoying a renaissance around the world. An Olympic sport from 1900 to 1920, there is strong sentiment to bring tugging back to the Games. That would be welcome news in bored and poor Japan, where...
...just in time for all sides to claim that it was their policies that did the trick. But there look to be at least few casualties along the way. The New York Post has it that one is Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, who after getting jilted at the altar by John Breaux on a Senate compromise bill started telling reporters that the recovery was imminent anyway. When your job is to sell your boss' agenda to the Hill, the boss doesn't take it to kindly when he demands a bill by Thanksgiving and then has to demand...
...after a series of mishaps, the happy couple is reunited at the end. Rarely is real life so simple. If you stop to think about the logistics of the film, both Cusack’s and Beckinsale’s characters leave perfectly lovely fiancées at the altar. Jonathan deserts a girl who’s thoughtful enough to remember his favorite book, and Sara’s fiancée visits every hotel in New York City alphabetically to discern her location. Both are fantastic relationships that may simply need some work, and each person?...