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...handed the victim $125,000 to quash a lawsuit in 1996. In the past decade, four dioceses (see chart) have laid out $96.2 million in settlements. And these are only the ones that have become public; the vast majority carry confidentiality agreements that continue to conceal the full extent of priest misconduct and church payouts...
...institutions are run by human beings, and humans are fallible. I am an American Catholic who is greatly saddened by the harm that has come to the children who were victims of the criminal behavior of certain priests. The men involved should be punished to the full extent of the law, and everything possible should be done to keep this from happening again. I will never, however, lose trust in or stop loving my church. I hope Sullivan does not suppose our faith is so shallow as to be shaken by the sins of a few of our leaders. KATHY...
...some extent, the answer must be the quality of American universities, which are highly efficient, intensely competitive and wonderfully endowed and which increasingly recruit the best students in the world. But university professors aren't magicians; however skilled they may be, if their inputs from high schools are garbage, their outputs of graduates will not be much better...
ANTARCTICA Now You See It, Now You Don't An ice shelf 200 m thick, 3,250 sq km in extent and weighing 500 billion tons broke up in less than a month. Though average Antarctic peninsula temperatures have risen by 2.5C in the last 50 years, the eastern Larsen B shelf crumbled into small icebergs far faster than expected. The shelf was a huge extension into the water of the ice sheets covering the land mass. It was one of five that have been shrinking owing to climate change. An iceberg half the size of Cyprus broke...
...domestic political crisis for Sharon. The Israeli leader is under mounting pressure from his right flank to take more decisive military action against the Palestinian Authority. Whether through escalation or a truce, Sharon needs desperately to calm the situation. So does the Bush administration, which has belatedly discovered the extent to which Israeli-Palestinian violence prevents Arab allies from supporting a war to unseat Saddam Hussein. Arafat will have seen, over the past two weeks, how the wider U.S. agenda created pressure on Israel to curb its own military operations, leaving Sharon exposed politically - and bringing down Sharon's government...