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McCann's goal netted him the Harvard record for goals by a defenseman in a season, tying Dick Greeley's 1947-48 mark with...
Father Andrew Greeley estimates that the church across the U.S. spends $50 million a year on therapy for priests and damage judgments to victims -- and that 2,000 to 4,000 priests may have abused 100,000 underage victims. Some Catholics wonder whether the scandals point to underlying problems in the priesthood. Robert W. Pledl, a Catholic attorney representing St. Lawrence victims, is struck by how insensitive and defensive the clergy were. "I just don't think that would happen if priests had families of their own," says Pledl, who thinks mandatory celibacy creates a priestly world where "women...
...open to all impressions and influences, and gladly profited by the teachings of events and circumstances, no matter how adverse or unwelcome. There was probably no year of his life when he was not a wiser, cooler, and better man than he had been the year preceeding. -- HORACE GREELEY ON ABRAHAM LINCOLN...
...Greeley's observation is contained in Lincoln on Leadership, a slim volume of 188 pages. Clinton, a quick study, could have devoured the book's central tenets in a few hours. But he carried it around for weeks, dipping in and out, rereading its advice, "learning a little," as he put it. "He keeps talking about it," said his aide, George Stephanopoulos, at the time. "It's like a private bible about how to govern...
...assumption is that all kids are able to learn," said Greeley. "Maybe we just have to be doing a lot more...