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...weeks prior to Easter Sunday—the holiest day in the Catholic liturgical calendar—Pope Benedict XVI was preparing for an apology instead of a celebration. On Sunday, March 21, congregations throughout Ireland were read a letter authored by the Pope, which expressed his “shame and remorse” for the acts of child sexual abuse committed by priests in the nation. The Pope was responding to two reports released by Irish officials last year, which discovered frequent abuses in parochial schools and widespread efforts by ecclesiastical authorities to cover up these crimes. Ultimately...
...have done more to help Harvard undergraduates than grade inflation and Quad shuttles. But the more relaxed pub settings of Europe—it’s hard to find those in the US, or in the warm islands that welcome tons of STDs and college kids every March...
...less tempestuous political climate, Ken Mandile's story would be a striking one. This year it is strikingly familiar. Mandile, the owner of a Massachusetts small business that manufactures high-precision screw-machine products, never nurtured political ambitions. But in March 2009, upset with the direction of the nascent Obama Administration, he registered on a website listing Tea Party events and began sending out e-mail blasts. The Worcester Tea Party, for whom Mandile serves as president, now counts more than 700 members on its distribution list, the vast majority of them political newcomers like Mandile himself. Groups like...
...working in the North Caucasus. In recent years, they have taken part in several vicious attacks in Moscow, including the bombings of two passenger planes in 2004 that killed 89 people. Abdurakhmanova, named by police as one of the two suicide bombers who struck the Moscow subway system on March 29, killing at least 40 people, seems to fit the mold. Her husband was a leading militant in the Russian region of Dagestan and was killed in a shoot-out with police on New Year's Eve. Sharipova, a schoolteacher, was also married to a militant Islamist in Dagestan...
...poem continues, Hass widens the scope of his lens. The dune moves, he writes, in a “grand slow march / across the earth’s surface,” which “has an external counterpart in the scouring / movement of glaciers.” As he explores the layers of fractals in nature, the poet sees similar shapes and motion in the patterns of human feelings. He notices “The movement of grief / which has something in it of the desert’s bareness / and of its distances...