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...light does not go out in Arthur Raven's universe--in the end justice is seen to be done. But if Raven achieves a weary self-enlightenment, nowhere does Errors deliver a clear judgment on the death penalty. Instead it conveys a deep sense of unease. A wrongful execution, after all, is one legal error that can never be reversed
CHECK YOUR MATH The numbers looked good. Too good, it turns out. Early statistics showed cases of melanoma, breast, lung and colorectal cancers to be falling, but researchers now say these numbers are actually up, not down. The source of the error: not all cases diagnosed in a given year were included in that year's tally; between 3% and 12% of cancers went unrecorded because of reporting delays...
...Islamic terrorism results largely from a failure to recognize this limitation. I am not equating Gomes’ views with the thinking that has fueled terrorist atrocities in America, Israel, the Philippines, Bali and, most recently, Moscow. But this thinking begins by claiming God as a political backer, an error which Gomes commits with his easy assumption that a war in Iraq would run afoul of the things the Lord delights in: “Love, justice, and righteousness...
...crosier," and said the church's internal canon law, which it has sometimes relied upon to justify keeping mum about predator priests, deserved as much deference as the rules of a golf club. Connell is unlikely to resign. His friends say he may be old school, but feels every error is being transmogrified into a cover-up, and looks forward to clearing his name in an inquiry. Meanwhile, regardless of what happens to him, "the anger is huge," says one Irish priest in Rome. "You think you've heard it all and then you're hit again - and there...
...error occurred while processing this directive]Movies can't save lives. But they can dramatize moral and political dilemmas. Noyce believes that, in the enigmatic figure of Pyle, "Greene pinpointed something in the post-World War II American personality: an obsession to do good. The Vietnam War was prosecuted by people who believed that the end justified the means and that they were fighting a holy...