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...People's confidence in the church has suffered greatly. Do you think you have the problem under control? You would be very foolish to say you know everything because pedophiles are extremely devious and deliberate in covering their tracks. All I can say is that we are working to establish structures that will reduce the possibility that any church employee can do that. Is there something in the nature of priesthood that attracts pedophiles? Priesthood offers privileged access to young people. And because of celibacy, it's one of the few institutions that prizes not being married. Those two factors...
...months after Chloe's birth, Oksana met with members of Scott's family. She owned up to her past drug use, insisted that she had quit cold turkey and asked for their support. For their part, Oksana and Scott began to establish a caring relationship with their daughter while she lived in a foster home. Oksana visited Chloe regularly, starting with a few hours at her social worker's office and gradually increasing the time until Chloe was spending two nights a week with her parents. "We spent a lot of time cuddling," says Oksana. In February Oksana and Scott...
...second half of Schama's powerful book follows the former slaves in their wretched exile after the war, when thousands joined an exodus of white loyalists to Nova Scotia. Others shipped out to Africa to establish a struggling township in Sierra Leone. Although the African settlers suffered years of illness and near starvation, they were the first largely self-governing community of African Americans. If it wasn't quite "British freedom," it was still a taste of the liberty the U.S. would not offer blacks for many years to come...
...first session ended with an ambitious proposal: to forge a lasting peace with the Maoist rebels who have been fighting a decade-long insurgency against the government, and to establish a new constituent assembly tasked with rewriting the constitution, which could eventually allow the people to decide the fate of the unpopular King. Many observers worry that the Maoists, who announced a three-month ceasefire last week, will never settle for anything less than a pure republic. But with the rebels operating across large parts of Nepal, the new government may have no choice but to cooperate. "The fact that...
...meters down.The rest of the course was a battle—not between Harvard and Northeastern, which fell out of any sort of contention by the midway point, but rather between the Crimson and the conditions that became even worse after the Mass. Ave. Bridge.“We established a very good pace,” Hoy said. “I think it was very aggressive, especially under those conditions. We are learning to establish a very aggressive and very strong racing cadence, and that’s very important.”For the second consecutive week...