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...American Cardinals in April 2002 to address the abuse scandal, but was believed to have been largely shielded in his later years from the worst details. His successor has taken a tougher line, and indeed just months before he was elected to be Pope Benedict XVI, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger wrote of the "filth" of the Church in apparent reference to the sex scandals. Among the boldest administrative moves of Benedict since his 2005 election was the disciplining last year of Mexico's Rev. Marcial Maciel Degollado, the 86-year-old founder of the conservative Legionaries of Christ...
...accused rebels, of course, are all for mato oput. LRA leader Joseph Kony was indicted, along with three other commanders, by the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Kony and his co-defendants say that they want the government to scrap the multiple-count indictment. If not, the rebels warn that they will not sign a peace agreement that is being hammered out in Juba, in southern Sudan, between the Ugandan government...
...cutting-edge contemporaries such as performance artist Marina Abramovic, photographer Gregory Crewdson and Matthew Barney, who refuses to be confined to one medium. The latter also happens to grace Peggy's palazzo, albeit very oddly, in the current show "All in the Present Must Be Transformed: Matthew Barney and Joseph Beuys." Rylands imagines Guggenheim "would have been intrigued and bemused" by Barney's Baroque video antics. Still, "the avant-garde experience is absolutely Peggy's spirit"-one that's intoxicating Melbourne right...
...appointment of Flier, an expert on obesity and diabetes at Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, comes after a nine-month search to succeed Joseph B. Martin, who served as dean for a decade...
...serves in the House of Representatives and can participate in debate but is prohibited from casting any official vote. Norton has been on the job for 17 years, many of which she has devoted to trying to secure more rights for D.C. residents. Since 2001, she and Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman, an independent, have been introducing legislation to provide Washingtonians with voting representation in Congress. And for the first time, they might actually have a chance of getting this legislation passed...