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...ecclesiastical sex abuse, they’re going to have to make more of an effort to make sure that these offenders are prosecuted to the full extent of the law. The Church cannot simply throw money at the victims as they’ve been doing, and Law??s well-chosen replacement, Archbishop Sean Patrick O’Malley, cannot simply shake a lot of hands and be sympathetic. They have skipped a step. If the Church hopes to again forge the bonds of trust for people who feel genuinely betrayed by what is literally the most...
...saying they have to lower themselves, but sophisticated policy needs to be packaged with a command of language. Democrats could propose a “Fair Districting Act” to stave off Tom DeLay’s gerrymandering program, or an “Anti-Misinformation Law?? to keep the Pentagon from resuming its absurd project to deliberately mislead foreign journalists, or a “Corporate Patriotism” bill to close the loophole that lets companies avoid billions in taxes by putting a home office in Bermuda, but this in itself is not sufficient...
According to Gov. W. Mitt Romney, the 180-day stay was a subtle invitation to the legislature to pass a Vermont-style “civil union” law??a “separate but equal” alternative to marriage. But Romney and other radicals want to go even further and amend the state constitution to ban not only same-sex marriage, but civil unions as well. Although a post-Goodridge poll showed that 53 percent of Massachusetts voters oppose such action, conservative activists are already beginning a propaganda campaign to drive the amendment through...
...shown by this semi-classic flick. Timothy Bottoms, recently of “That’s My Bush,” goes to Harvard law school and meets troop after troop of ridiculous-if-you’ve-never-been here caricatures, including “Contracts Law?? Professor Kingsfield and his beautiful daughter Susan, played by Wagner. He falls in love with the daughter and learns to tackle the demanding class, with constant humorous interludes involving Harvard weirdo-filled study groups. Although it sounds pretty dumb in theory, the strong performances create a strongly watchable...
...House of Representatives passed a bill preventing doctors from performing a procedure that pro-life advocates have named “partial-birth” abortions. Last year, a similar bill was passed in the Senate and President George W. Bush has publicly declared he would sign it into law??marking the first time Congress will restrict abortion since Roe v. Wade...