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...Coast.“In response to Katrina...we ignored vulnerable people...This cannot be our model for a successful response,” VanRooyen said. “What separates us from less stable countries is our ability to provide protection for our population.”Daniel Curran, director of the Humanitarian Leadership Program at Harvard Business School, emphasized the need for future plans to focus on “decentralized action with centralized coordination.” In other words, he advocated having individuals, organizations, and local governments manage the recovery effort of their own communities while...
...injuries that Kozlowski and Swartz inflicted were purely financial, and nowhere near the magnitude as the frauds at WorldCom and Enron?companies that collapsed and wiped out shareholders and many employees? 401(k) accounts. "Tyco is not Enron," Thomas Curran, a former New York City prosecutor who is now a defense lawyer, told the Associated Press. "Tyco is a real company with a real business plan that still employs thousands of people. ... There are no retirees eating cat food because of Dennis Kozlowski...
...Curran contends that none of these traditional teachings on sexual morality have been defined infallibly, and that theologians are thus free to dissent from them. But Rome reads canon law differently. Says one official at the Vatican: "It is valid to withhold assent [privately] in certain circumstances, but it is not valid to teach dissent." Curran protests that he is not alone, characterizing his views as "mainstream" and "accepted by the majority of Catholic theologians today." Nine former presidents of the Catholic Theological Society of America agree, and are circulating a pro-Curran petition...
...Curran is willing to bend somewhat; he has offered not to teach sexual-ethics classes if the Vatican will settle for issuing a statement detailing his errors, but allow him to continue as a theology teacher. Mindful of the potential donnybrook if Curran is dismissed, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago, head of Catholic University's board of trustees, has lobbied with the Pope and Ratzinger to accept such a compromise, so far to no avail...
...theology chairman at the University of Notre Dame, Father Richard McBrien, considers the Curran case "the biggest blunder the Vatican has committed with the American church" in two decades. But to a more conservative theologian in Rome "the question is, Why did the Vatican wait so long?" --By Richard N. Ostling. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof/Rome and Jim Castelli/Washington