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...what they have enabled is systematic child rape. They resist deep change by claiming that celibacy isn't the issue. But the hierarchy's cover-up of this evil surely has something to do with celibacy. Today's church leaders see sex primarily as an act, fraught with moral danger, not as a relationship, imbued with moral good. And how could they think otherwise? They have never known sexual relations - only sexual fantasy, masturbation and struggle. So perhaps it never occurred to them, as the writer Michael Sean Winters has pointed out, to see this abuse from the child...
This defense creates another defendant: the international legal system. Its delicate framework is in danger of being crushed. If Bagosora and Milosovic succeed in putting international law on trial, the world may lose this avenue of punishing crimes against humanity...
...Freshmen get into all these big courses and there’s a danger of getting into a passive attitude about learning,” Pedersen says. “Freshman seminars do a good job combating that...
...wouldn’t have gone into politics,” Santos says. “Here, to be a politician is very risky.” Indeed, only last week the two survived a bomb attack on their motorcade. “Though our lives are in danger at every second,” Santos says, “my interest in helping this country go forward goes before personal, family, professional and the paper’s interests...
...student body. There is obviously no formalized voice for white students—no White Men’s Forum, no White Students Association and no White Women’s Collective. Such an organization would make a lot of people uncomfortable, but there’s not much danger of that happening. If, as some leaders of other ethnic student organizations say, white students self-segregate as much as anyone else, they are not conscious of doing so. The Crimson survey found that while Harvard’s campus has some white communities that identify strongly with an ethnicity...