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...Mark stands out because of his superb expertise, creativity, and extraordinary knowledge of Japan, China and India,” said Law School Dean Martha L. Minow in a press release...
Lingle initially seemed to tolerate the occupation, which began on April 7. But sheriff's deputies quickly began issuing trespassing citations to protesters. Some got multiple citations, particularly for staying on the premises after office hours. Then, during a press conference at her office on Wednesday, April 14, the governor ignored questions from parents and warned that anyone who had already been cited twice would be arrested. Later that night, two people were taken into custody. The following day, two more were handcuffed and led away. (See the top 10 things you didn't know about Hawaii...
...blew herself up in the subway just beneath Lubyanka Square, the home of Bortnikov's FSB. The hunt for the man said to be her husband and his associates has been used to justify this week's crackdown in Dagestan. But Sharipova's father, Rasul Magomedov, told The Associated Press on April 6 that his daughter was not even married, and had always lived with her parents in the village of Balakhani. "It's absolute nonsense," he said. "She was always at school or at home. If there is a husband, his wife should be with...
...crisis erupted: Would the priestly vows of celibacy be reconsidered? "Many psychologists and psychiatrists have demonstrated that there is no relation between celibacy and pedophilia. But many others have demonstrated, I have been told recently, that there is a relation between homosexuality and pedophilia," Bertone said during a press conference on Tuesday in Chile, where he was on a weeklong visit. "That is true. That is the problem." (See a viewpoint on how the Pope should respond to the sex-abuse scandal...
...pointing out that the Pope himself declined to cite a correlation between homosexuality and sex abuse of minors when asked by reporters on the papal plane in 2008. Finally, after the French embassy to the Holy See issued a rare statement on Wednesday condemning the "unacceptable" remark, the Vatican press office was forced to issue an official clarification of Bertone's remarks, saying he was referring to homosexual priests rather than the general public. (See "Catholic Europe: How Damaged Is the Papacy...