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...more," Clohessy said. "We've been talking this to death for decades. The hierarchy has always protected its priests and that seems to be the emphasis yet again." Clohessy said it was hard to imagine that a Vatican-appointed commission of "eight older, white, male celibates is going to fix this." He saw the Vatican position as reverting back to the position where "every bishop gets to make up his own mind, handle these situations by himself." Says Clohessy, "That's what got us into this mess to begin with...
...never having quite enough to eat. Things are better than they were during the famine of the mid-'90s, but they have begun to deteriorate since July when North Korea announced a series of economic reforms that many observers said signaled the start of a serious effort to fix the country's collapsed command economy. The government raised the salaries of workers such as miners and teachers, increased the cost of state rations such as rice and allowed the North Korean won to fall to about 150 to the dollar, much closer to its real black-market value than...
Bilingual education, with its specialized instruction, segregates immigrants and hampers their ultimate ability to live successfully in an English-speaking society. The quick-fix bilingual “solution” which the Staff erroneously advocates provides for an education which is separate but far from equal...
...megahit Trading Spaces (where pairs of friends fix up, or ruin, each other's homes), the drama is, Do your friends really know you? Could you live their lives better than they do? And Trading Spaces' success has inspired a raft of shows that are as much about love as about louvers. Take HGTV's Designing for the Sexes, where spouses gamely spar over home projects, Mars-and-Venus style; one husband wants angular stones for the new fireplace because they're more "manly" than curvy river rocks. On Discovery's Surprise by Design, people race against the clock...
Leverett’s budget next year will include plans to fix the windows. “It’s our long term goal to plug the holes and fix the poor windows,” Hegarty noted...