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...Pope suffers in silence, Catholics in his native Germany are growing increasingly angry as revelations pile up. They were first set off by accusations from former students at a prestigious Jesuit high school in Berlin. But much of the attention has now shifted to the case of Father H, the name the German media is using for the priest who sexually abused minors in the late 1970s and was transferred to Munich in 1980, initially for treatment, but later allowed to return to full pastoral duties. The man at the helm of the Munich Archdiocese at the time of Father...
...always be just out of reach." What, I venture, will represent the gold? O'Rahilly seems affronted. "Gold will represent the gold," he snaps. "We're going to have a quarter of a million euros of real gold. Who is going to come to a museum to see a pile of gold-painted pebbles? And anyway, leprechauns don't deal in anything else." (See the top exhibitions...
TIME: What is it like to receive all these awards? Does it even matter if you get an Oscar, or is the praise enough? Waltz: Praise is nothing that accumulates. Praise is a sequence, especially if you've toiled for a long time. Praise does not pile up. So in a way, you can't get too much. I don't consider it to be a quantity that you can measure by volume. There's a new aspect to the appreciation and the acknowledgment every time, because it's always coming from somewhere else. So I try to take...
...York Wine and Food Festival, and this whole food explosion taking over our culture ... I have to ask you: Why? Why has food become so important to us now? Food matters. It ... It appeals to all of your senses, it gives you instant gratification. You take a pile of raw ingredients, and you turn it into something sensual and meaningful that expresses who you are and the flavor of your life. And if you share it with other people it fills you up before you ever take a bite of it. It can connect you to your past...
...Enron-style, in a sudden financial flame out, or close up shop and flee their creditors. That's why lending money to states is considered the surest bet around. Reputation aside, however, politicians abuse their ability to borrow just like any spendthrift with too many credit cards, and often pile up more bills than they can handle. Argentina, Russia, Mexico and others have stiffed their bankers over the past 30 years. In fact, the sovereign-debt crisis goes back as far as the concept of the sovereign state. The first recorded government default took place in the 4th century...