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...debates on a formal policy to prevent and handle further abuse cases to deeper doctrinal conversations about celibacy and female priests. They will certainly set the agenda for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' meeting, scheduled for June in Dallas. Meanwhile, the appearance of high-level openness may help calm troubled waters...
Last week, students filtered in to the Boston Youth Fund’s Fenway area headquarters after school and hurried to finish their individual four-by- eight murals. The basement studio was calm as the students concentrated on their work, some putting on the final details, others still wondering how to fill large blank spaces. Four-year mural crew veteran Kerry Coleman, a junior at Catholic Memorial, was painting the tusks on Hannibal’s elephants crossing the Alps, completing his depiction of the Barbarian invaders. “This is pretty fun,” he commented...
...feel like this year there are a lot of good teams out there,” said sophomore second baseman Sara Williamson. “So this weekend we are trying to stay calm, play relaxed and play like we know...
...Kabul, at least, Karzai has the help of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), a 4,500-man contingent of mostly European peacekeepers. They have brought relative calm to the capital, but a recent series of attacks against ISAF itself, including the attempted rocketing of a barracks full of sleeping soldiers last week, have made locals skittish again. "We're seeing a pattern to destabilize the city, to cause unrest, and to cause people to lose faith in the interim administration and maybe even ISAF," says spokesman Flight Lieutenant Tony Marshall. "We're not going to be swayed by this...
...would be an understatement, then, to say the Secretary of State has very little to work with. But his calm, forceful demeanor, plain-spoken realism and determination to intervene against the odds suggests that his pessimism of the intellect is combined with a boundless optimism of the will...