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Marie Collins was a 13-year-old hospital patient when Father Paul McGennis sexually abused her in 1960. Thirty-five years later he was still a priest and she found the courage to complain to the office of Dublin's Archbishop, Desmond Connell. There she found a stony bureaucratic indifference that has made her so angry she now wants to file criminal charges against the archdiocese for covering up McGennis' crime. "The abuse didn't take away my religion," says Collins, a Dublin housewife who no longer attends Mass. "The two years trying to get Cardinal Connell...
...past, candidates have petitioned and run on platforms advocating particular issues. For example, Archbishop Desmond Tutu was elected at the height of a campaign to force the University to divest from holdings in Apartheid South Africa...
...California housewife. Turner last played Tallulah Bankhead onstage, and doesn't seem to have paused for a cigarette in between. Her come-on to Benjamin is so overbearing and unsexy that it's a miracle the kid doesn't flee the room in horror. Forget Mrs. Robinson; paging Norma Desmond...
Lest anyone make the mistake of thinking that this behavior is merely a reflection of University President Lawrence H. Summers’ abrasive style, it might be well to recall that more than a decade ago, when a group of alumni managed to elect Archbishop Desmond Tutu to the Board of Overseers as part of a campaign to persuade Harvard to divest its South African holdings, the response of then-President Derek C. Bok was to change the rules for electing Overseers so that no one like Tutu would be elected in the future. Once Nelson Mandela was released...
...religious figures. Opening a new HIV research unit at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto last month, Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane, head of the Anglican Church in South Africa, called it "sinful and immoral" to deny drugs that could save the life of a child. Said Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, "We can't afford the luxury of academic debates about the causes of the disease. We are fiddling as our particular Rome burns...