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...then began an intense investigation. In February 2002, Patricia confessed to investigators. As the arrests accelerated, those not yet arrested burned key evidence, including photographs of sexual assaults, says Lollic. A complex bureaucracy separates social assistance from law enforcement, so officials didn't follow each other's leads or grasp the enormity of the crimes. And social workers typically do not work on weekends or evenings, when, according to lawyers, much of the prostitution trade occurred. Yet officials say their social services are not under scrutiny. "The mission of social workers isn't to control families or be policemen within...
...spoke more in sorrow than in anger. It was obvious there was a concern for humanity in what the President was striving to achieve, no matter how awkwardly he went about it. What disturbed Reagan's friends and critics last week was his impulsive public rhetoric and his shaky grasp of history. Some Reagan watchers wondered whether his fabled Teflon coating was beginning to show some scratches...
...President said last week, that German soldiers are as much victims as those whom the Germans tortured and murdered. There is also a distinction to be drawn between Hitler's soldiers and the Kaiser's. Mitterrand's choice of Verdun, the awful symbol of World War I, shows a grasp of that distinction. The choice of Bitburg does...
...Harvey Falk of Brooklyn believes that much interreligious tension need never have existed at all. His current book, Jesus the Pharisee: A New Look at the Jewishness of Jesus, just issued by a Roman Catholic publisher (Paulist Press; 175 pages; $8.95), contends that Jews and Christians alike fail to grasp Jesus' ties to the competing Jewish factions of his time. Christians, says Falk, have misunderstood some of the teachings of Jesus, while Jews have been needlessly hostile toward "Yeshua ha Notzri" (Jesus of Nazareth). Falk's book offers a provocative and controversial theory on Christian origins...
...There is a distinction on Capitol Hill between Regan's grasp for power and his ability to use it wisely," summarizes a Republican strategist. Not just on Capitol Hill, either. No one in Washington doubts Regan's power, but there is a nagging sense that he may lack the collegial temperament to use it as judiciously and effectively as is necessary in such a political town. --By George J. Church. Reported by Sam Allis and Laurence I. Barrett/Washington