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...that Benedict personally led before becoming Pope, defends Sobrinho's "pastoral delicacy" and leaves no wiggle room on the standing of the family and doctors who carried out the abortion. "Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense. The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life," reads the statement, which widely cites past Vatican documents. "The Church does not thereby intend to restrict the scope of mercy. Rather, she makes clear the gravity of the crime committed, the irreparable harm done to the innocent who is put to death, as well...
...that most of the media is still in a "post-9/11 swoon" and doesn't cover the department with any teeth. It really happened even earlier, with the age of Giuliani and his turnaround of the crime situation. People were so afraid of getting on the wrong side of him that there was very little critical coverage at the time, so it all came out in the coverage of Louima and Diallo, which are two of the most horrific incidents that occurred. [Abner Louima is a Haitian immigrant who was brutally assaulted by a police officer in a Brooklyn...
...interesting you say that, because on first blush this appears to be a relatively strong period for the NYPD. Crime remains fairly low, and we haven't seen some of the tensions between the department and the public that we saw in the 1990s. This is more style than it is substance. There have been four killings of unarmed black men by police since Kelly has been commissioner, and there's been no reform of police procedure that I'm aware of. We had the case of a black teenage boy shot to death on the roof of his apartment...
Mayor Giuliani often gets credit for the dramatic drop in New York's crime since the 1990s. Does he deserve it? I think so. It wouldn't have happened without Giuliani. He had a commissioner [William Bratton] that changed the culture of the NYPD and made them accountable for the first time in perhaps a decade, but Giuliani was unable to share credit and Bratton was dismissed. Bratton, in my opinion, was not blameless either. He couldn't control himself when it came to publicity...
...news of Estemirova's murder, in sharp contrast to the three-day silence from then President Putin that followed the killing of crusading journalist Anna Politkovskaya, a friend and colleague of Estemirova's. Medvedev expressed "indignation" and said the government would "take all necessary measures" to solve the crime. (Read "Murder, Russian-Style: Political Assassination...