Word: concealing
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...disclosed that they had handed the victim $125,000 to quash a lawsuit in 1996. In the past decade, four dioceses (see chart) have laid out $96.2 million in settlements. And these are only the ones that have become public; the vast majority carry confidentiality agreements that continue to conceal the full extent of priest misconduct and church payouts...
...More important, because Doe feels that O'Connell and the diocese of Jefferson City conspired to conceal what O'Connell had been doing - and because Doe has material evidence in the form of e-mail and taped phone messages over the past two weeks of O'Connell urging him not to come forward with his own tale of abuse - he and his Minnesota attorney, Jeff Anderson, feel they have grounds to sue O'Connell and the diocese under federal racketeering (RICO) laws usually used to convict mafiosos. "Crime is crime," says Doe, "whether it's for God or for Tony...
...temple at the disputed site this month; it snapped when Muslim fanatics attacked a train in Godhra, Gujarat, and killed Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya. In its first test of lynch-mob politics, the government of Vajpayee in New Delhi failed, while the BJP administration in Gujarat could barely conceal its support for those mobs. Paradoxically, Muslim fundamentalists, like the hectoring, acid-tongued Syed Shahabuddin, created a platform for the Hindu resurgence in the 1980s with their virulent and purposeless rhetoric. Their successors in 2002 have provided Hindu fanaticism with another cause célèbre. Sadly...
UNITED STATES Prayer Protest An improvised turban caused a hunger strike at Camp X-Ray, Cuba among suspected al-Qaeda and Taliban captives. Turbans had been banned, lest they conceal weapons. When one man used a bedsheet to cover his head during prayers, guards ordered it removed. In protest nearly two-thirds of the 300 inmates went on a hunger strike. Most relented when camp commander General Mike Lehnert conceded that they would be allowed turbans and that they would be kept informed about their legal status...
...knows that a month is not enough time for a fair election to develop. He has spent years tampering with the political system, whether through amending laws, or scaring away his opposition. Similarly, since the U.N. inspectors were expelled in 1998, Iraq has had ample time to relocate and conceal any chemical, biological or nuclear weapons program it is developing. It was difficult enough to locate these hidden weapons programs before the expulsion, but if the inspectors return it will be even more difficult because they will start all over under tighter time constraints than before...