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...Applied Research on the Apostolate at Georgetown University, 42% said they never go to confession. Only 14% said they go once a year, and just 2% said they go regularly. The fading away of one of Catholicism's best-known traditions has finally gotten alarming enough that bishops have begun turning to modern marketing tools to reverse it. "Confession isn't about rationalizing or explaining away the wrongs we do," says Washington Archbishop Donald Wuerl, who has used radio commercials and billboard ads to promote the sacrament in his archdiocese. "It's about having the courage to admit them...
...cases. Interpol appealed this summer to law-enforcement authorities worldwide, urging them to capture ICTR fugitives within their borders. Rwanda maintains it would be best to try all suspects there; the death penalty was formally abolished in July, eliminating a major obstacle in extradition negotiations. And the ICTR has begun shifting jurisdiction over the accused to individual countries, entrusting them to try those fugitives found after the ICTR's deadline. "There will always be a framework in place to ensure these people can be tried. We are confident that nobody will escape justice," Amoussouga says. Rwanda's Justice Minister Karugarama...
...Beating the diplomatic buzzer will require innovation, and there were glimpses of the necessary creativity on Monday. Representatives from the Carbon Disclosure Project, a non-profit connected to hundreds of institutional investors controlling $41 trillion in assets, reported that major corporations have begun to increasingly act on climate change - outpacing many governments. Indonesia, the third-biggest carbon emitter after the U.S. and China, hosted a side meeting of rainforest nations, where they called for forest protections to be a larger part of Kyoto's successor agreement when negotiations start in Bali. (Deforestation is responsible roughly 20% of global carbon emissions...
...year-old bookstore has begun kicking out students who write down book identification numbers, known as ISBNs, because students can use those numbers to buy their books more cheaply online...
...across a handful of Internet vendors as well as the putatively more pricy Coop. This year, however, presented a previously unencountered difficulty. Many course syllabi, typically posted on the Internet in the week or two prior to Shopping Period, did not appear on-line until the day before classes begun. Bereft of syllabi, Crimson Reading had to resort to extreme measures to acquire the lists of required texts for each course...