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...Israelis and Palestinians ever learn to live together? Just as the two parties edged toward a cease-fire last week, three Palestinian suicide bombings in three days put that tentative progress in peril. While the bodies pile up and the diplomats scramble to find a breakthrough, it is people like the Simons and the Zeidans who have to make the most difficult choices. If the initiative is to be taken away from zealots on both sides, politicians will need a shove from those with the greatest stake in achieving a placid life. The Simons and the Zeidans ache for normality...
...accusations pile up, the church's relationship with the law is facing revision. To this day, only 19 states require clergy to report suspicions or allegations of sex abuse against minors to civil authorities. While legislators rush to write the church into "mandatory reporter" laws, many bishops say they've already pledged to tell the cops of any new charges. Some dioceses, like those in Boston and Bridgeport, are combing through their secret archives to hand over details of all cases, going back 49 years. But in New York, Cardinal Egan has barely noted the changing weather. He will retain...
...like Corzine preventing us from becoming as rich as he is? A lot of people got wealthy betting heavily on their employer. Corzine, the former co-CEO of investment bank Goldman Sachs, made his pile primarily from shares of Goldman's privately held stock, which gave him the $60 million he spent on a pricey piece of furniture--a U.S. Senate seat...
...fantasy sequence has been poured on like red sauce at an Olive Garden in series from Ally McBeal to Six Feet Under. But Universe proves that there is no gimmick so overused that it won't work if you do it funny. Its surreal, Simpsonsesque gags pile twist upon twist, as when Andy tries to get a rival fired, then in an exaggerated attempt to win the audience's sympathy, imagines striding into work wearing a coat lined with adorable puppies. "Would a bad person encase themselves in puppies like this?" he muses...
...administration has decided to “pile on” with their own brand of institutional bias against Harvard athletes in the name of admission purity. Why? Because some other colleges have already done so. Since when does Harvard follow Princeton, let alone Amherst, Williams and Bowdoin...