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...remember that coverage of Benedict's April visit to the United States was dominated by his unprecedented attempts to heal the wounds from the clergy sex abuse crisis, including a series of heartfelt remarks and a private meeting in Washington with five victims from the Boston Archdiocese, which was hardest hit by pedophile priests. But though the scandal in the U.S. may have been the most widespread, and certainly most public, there are, in fact, cases of sex abuse all around the Catholic world - as there are, as the Vatican always points out, in all walks of life. In Australia...
...buddy story of Huck and Jim was not only a model of American adventure and literature but also of deep friendship and loyalty. It's not hard to see why Ernest Hemingway said all of American literature can be traced back to Mark Twain. Plus, Twain was funny, the hardest trick...
...pasty-buttocked businessmen are usually more funny than arousing. It's not a profound show either, though Hannah occasionally ruminates on her sex-vs.-love life à la Carrie Bradshaw in satc: "Sex is really a numbers game. Group sex is complicated, but that's mechanics. For me the hardest numbers have always been one plus one." (One is the loneliest but by no means the highest number that she'll ever...
...Tensions between NCLB believers and the blow-up-the-schools group were one reason the Bush Department of Education felt like "a pressure cooker," says Neuman, who left the Administration in early 2003. Another reason was political pressure to take the hardest possible line on school accountability in order to avoid looking lax - like the Clinton Administration. Thus, when Neuman and others argued that many schools would fail to reach the NCLB goals and needed more flexibility while making improvements, they were ignored. "We had this no-waiver policy," says Neuman. "The feeling was that the prior administration had given...
...bank would quickly spend about $1.2 billion to boost crop production in the world's poorest countries. U.S. President George W. Bush has committed about $360 million in U.S. emergency food aid, while the Asian Development Bank has vowed to give $500 million in emergency loans to the hardest-hit countries...