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Today Brett is on the run and still officially a priest, despite pleas to defrock him. Egan, now Cardinal and Archbishop of New York and perhaps the pre-eminent prelate in the U.S., is under heavy fire to explain his handling not just of Brett but of other pending cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the Church Be Saved? | 4/1/2002 | See Source »

But despite the family’s pleas, Karzai says, her father and brother Hamid remained behind, unwilling to leave the country.

Author: By Eugenia B. Schraa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Flavor of Kabul in Cambridge | 3/6/2002 | See Source »

Arafat didn't risk going to bed. In public, his aides boasted that he stayed in his bunker on al-Irsal Street, defiantly working through the attacks and refusing pleas from his friends to move to another location in Ramallah. "He doesn't want to be seen running from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To The Brink | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

Despite pleas from the captains, NDA director Bill Boggs informed the team in December that it would not receive a paid bid and would have to fund its own trip to Daytona Beach this April.

Author: By Daniel E. Fernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ladies of the Dance | 2/28/2002 | See Source »

Arafat didn't risk going to bed. In public, his aides boasted that he stayed in his bunker on al-Irsal Street, defiantly working through the attacks and refusing pleas from his friends to move to another location in Ramallah. "He doesn't want to be seen running from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East on the Brink | 2/24/2002 | See Source »

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