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WHAT ABOUT THIS MESS IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH? Pedophiles are hunters, and they're going to put themselves into positions where they can prey on victims. And who could be more trusted than a priest? It tears your heart...
Consider the most basic question of such inquiry: What constitutes a victim of child sexual abuse? By definition, pedophiles prey on the prepubescent. No one would seriously argue that a 6- or even 10-year-old can meaningfully consent to sex. But what about those 12 and older, who make up nearly half of all juvenile sex-abuse victims? The states define the age of consent for sex differently. Most say it is 16, but some say 18. In Hawaii, it's 14. So are teenagers from the onset of puberty (usually about 13) to the age of sexual majority...
...national promotional tour is planned to excite fans and spread the word about the new movie Scratch, by director Doug Prey. Scratch gives a documentary-style history and contemporary portrait of important and innovative DJs and the now thriving DJ culture founded on their talents...
Impressive as Titus promises to look, however, there always lingers the significant possibility of falling prey to a text that remains clumsy in spite of its gripping plot. Critics have long noted that the characters in Titus are palpably estranged from the audience, despite the horrors the plot wreaks upon them. Bloom wrote, “Everything and everyone on stage is very remote from us,” the steely Titus most of all. If the characters lie outside the audience’s capacity for empathy, no matter how thrilling to the senses it is, it will remain...
...weapons shipment from Iran contradicts Arafat’s claim to want peace. Nonetheless, Arafat is the only visible Palestinian leader who has any degree of legitimacy both with his people and with the West. If Sharon has his way and Arafat is expelled, Israel will fall prey to even greater violence and tumult during the Palestinian power struggle that would follow. And there’s no guarantee that Arafat’s replacement would be any more receptive to peace...