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...guilty to extortion and mail fraud and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors. Apparently that was enough to drive Manes to his last desperate act--an end foreshadowed 31 years earlier when his own father, despondent over reported financial reverses, shot himself to death. --By John S. DeMott. Reported by Joseph N. Boyce/New York
...unrealized; he has been vilified by lawmakers; his cabinet has been racked by a dozen firings and resignations. Worst of all, two former state Democratic officials have been convicted of attempted extortion and three others have been indicted for taking bribes, including Anaya's secretary for health and environment, Joseph Johnson, who was charged last week. Although state law forbids a Governor to succeed himself, Anaya would probably not run for re-election if he could: a poll of voters taken last year indicated that his approval rating was an abysmal...
...turn of the Rev. Charles Curran, 51, a moral theologian at the Catholic University of America in Washington. Last week, after meeting in Rome with Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, head of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Curran told a press conference that the Vatican has judged his views on sexual ethics unacceptable. That could lead to his dismissal from the university and widen a growing rift between Rome and the Americans...
Curran is willing to bend somewhat; he has offered not to teach sexual-ethics classes if the Vatican will settle for issuing a statement detailing his errors, but allow him to continue as a theology teacher. Mindful of the potential donnybrook if Curran is dismissed, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago, head of Catholic University's board of trustees, has lobbied with the Pope and Ratzinger to accept such a compromise, so far to no avail...
...rapacious, loony buccaneer in The Pirates of Penzance, onscreen as a psychotic lover in Sophie's Choice or as a nice-guy running-shoe entrepreneur in The Big Chill. Eager for acceptance as a classical performer, he has performed Richard III and Henry V for Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park. Last week Kline returned to Papp's Public Theater off Broadway and took on the ultimate challenge: Hamlet...