Word: collared
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SHOULD CLERGY WHO REASSIGN A SUSPECTED PEDOPHILE BE PROSECUTED? I believe so, yes. A crime is a crime, regardless of what collar you wear...
...Fewer than half of the factories in eastern Germany are under the national wage contracts. "It's a concern for us," says Klaus Mehrens, head of IG Metall in the western state of Hesse. The union represents both professional and manual workers at covered businesses, although membership for white-collar employees is only about 50% compared with 75% for blue-collar workers. IG Metall is trying to expand its ranks by branching out into service industries, "but I can't say we've been very successful," Mehrens concedes. Even if there is relative labor peace, the specter of lost jobs...
...inspiration for the narrator is Budbill himself, who hails from a blue-collar background, but has the resume of an intellectual. “I have this odd sort of love-hate relationship with the working class,” he conceded...
Shanley, now 71, didn't just have sex with children; he publicly endorsed the concept. He didn't just use his collar to get access to minors; he ran a special ministry for the most vulnerable among them. And he didn't fly below the radar of the church hierarchy; the 818-page archive released by the Boston Archdiocese under court order shows that two Cardinals and a phalanx of deputies knew about allegations of his abuse going back more than 30 years. But instead of handing Shanley over to police or at least defrocking him, they ignored, protected...
...lectures to Simon & Schuster without my knowing it, and they came up to Cambridge and said, “we’d like you to consider writing a book for us.” And I did. I had to be taken by the collar...