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...powerful Catholic Bishops' Conference. But a few senior clergy have, citing their own demands of conscience. In April three bishops released a letter demanding that the administration of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo crack down on corruption and initiate more programs to help the poor. One of the three, Archbishop Oscar Cruz of the Luzon province of Pangasinan, has become a player in the scandals surrounding the President. For four years, Cruz has waged what he calls a "crusade" against an illegal lottery racket known as jueteng, which is commonly played throughout the Philippines. He's trying to expose politicians who rake...
Faced with the higher tab for higher education, applicants are routinely asking colleges about the number of job offers and starting-salary averages for their graduates. With the cost-conscious in mind, Richard Moll, dean of admissions at the University of California, Santa Cruz has written The Public Ivys, due out next month. In it Moll profiles eight top-drawer public schools and nine runners-up. In many ways, he says, their quality "is quite comparable to anything the Ivy League has to offer," despite costs in some cases half that of the storied private institutions...
...report that Accuracy in Academia criticized Professor Mark Reader for taking "too strong a stance against nuclear war." How can someone take "too strong a stance" against something as horrible as nuclear war? Michael Cavadias Santa Cruz, Calif...
...inhabitants were preparing to observe the holiday quietly when seven planes of the Salvadoran air force swooped in low, dropping several bombs and strafing the area with machine-gun fire. "That was President [José Napoleón] Duarte's Christmas present to us," remarked María Cruz Amaya, who says she spent most of the day hiding in the brush. As it happened, no one was hurt in the raid. Indeed, Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Adolfo Blandón later denied to TIME that there had been any recent air attack on La Joya. Such charges, he said, were...
...Geremias Cruz Ramos, a Harvard custodial worker arrested in January 2004, admitted to groping about 100 women over several months—many of the gropings remained unreported. But even after Ramos’ arrest, the assaults—particularly by bicycle-riding assailants—continued...