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...find the Spanish word for pedophilia. First, he ad libs, referring in Spanish to the "crimes of the priests." Then, seeing the rows of blank faces, he resorts to saying pedophilia with a Spanish accent--which turns out to be right. A white Roman Catholic priest of Irish descent ministering to a mostly Hispanic congregation, Shanahan, along with his flock, is the picture of the Roman Catholic Church's future in the U.S. For a year and a half, he has been the only full-time pastor for the 600 families, most of them Puerto Rican, at St. Mark Parish...
...Penalty The Justice Department said it would seek the death penalty for Zacarias Moussaoui, the first person to be charged in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks. Moussaoui, a French citizen of Moroccan descent, is accused of conspiring with Osama bin Laden, the hijackers and others to commit attacks in the U.S. Investigators believe he intended to take part in the Sept. 11 hijackings, though he was in jail at the time. French officials said they would refuse to provide evidence against Moussaoui on four of the six charges that carry the death penalty. The trial is scheduled to begin...
...Karzai has one particularly good reason to bridle at Washington's refusal to help solve Afghanistan's woes: the U.S. has become a major part of the problem. By backing the Northern Alliance, Washington has empowered a group of warlords of minority Tajik, Hazara and Uzbek descent to rule over the Pashtuns?Afghanistan's largest ethnic group and the bedrock of Taliban support. And by rearming the warlords to hunt down al-Qaeda and the Taliban, the U.S. has also unwittingly helped fuel further conflict. According to U.N. special representative for Afghanistan Lakhdar Brahimi, "The war against terrorism creates...
...proposed certificate would differ from programs offered by the Rockefeller Center by focusing on the experience of Americans with Latin descent, as opposed to the culture of the Latin countries themselves, Sollors said...
...this Mr. Potter isn't Harry's dad. Mr. Potter, a native Antiguan of African descent, works on the Caribbean island of Antigua as a chauffeur for a Mideastern immigrant. He is the focus of Jamaica Kincaid's new novel, "Mr. Potter," (Farrar, Straus; May). PW is swept away, giving the book a starred review. "Another unsentimental, unsparing meditation on family and the larger forces that shape an individual's world...As in her previous books, Kincaid has exquisite control over her narrator's deep-seated rage, which drives the story but never overpowers it, and is tempered...