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Just as the archdiocese of Boston was contemplating filing for bankruptcy last week to cope with the estimated 450 civil sex-abuse suits against it, two top Vatican officials were pointing fingers elsewhere. German Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, perhaps the most powerful policymaker in Rome besides the Pope, told a Catholic news wire that the U.S. sex-abuse scandal was an "intentional, manipulated...desire to discredit the church" by the media. The conservative Ratzinger offered a virtual Vatican seal of approval for recent comments by two Latin American Cardinals--each considered possible papal successors--who also blamed the pedophilia crisis...
...effects on volume yet." For new owners, however, the car seems to be performing robustly. David Beverly says he got into a race last week with a BMW, clocking 115 m.p.h. before backing off. "I'm not 18 anymore," he says, "but it was heart-throbbing." --With reporting by Joseph R. Szczesny/Detroit
...DIED. STAN RICE, 60, American poet and painter; from brain cancer; in New Orleans. Rice, the husband of Interview with a Vampire novelist Anne Rice, won several awards for his seven collections of poetry, including the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Academy of American poets and the Joseph Henry Jackson Award...
...students had not been locked out of their rooms. Rather, they were taking part in a traditional Latin American posada—a reenactment of the biblical story in which Mary and Joseph wander through Bethlehem in search of posada (lodging) as Mary prepares to give birth to Jesus...
Kennedy School Dean Joseph S. Nye will select a faculty chair for the program in the coming months...