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...abuse allegations and is bracing for fresh claims against the two Portland priests. When Florida's Bishop of Palm Beach Anthony O'Connell resigned March 10, after revelations that he had fondled a student 25 years ago, church officials disclosed that they had handed the victim $125,000 to quash a lawsuit in 1996. In the past decade, four dioceses (see chart) have laid out $96.2 million in settlements. And these are only the ones that have become public; the vast majority carry confidentiality agreements that continue to conceal the full extent of priest misconduct and church payouts...
...simplistic, black and white thinking of fairytales which has engulfed our country. This view, provoked by our emotional response to Sept. 11, is that there is good and evil in the world, and right now, the forces of good—America, Harvard—must rise up to quash evil in a grand battle of mythic proportions...
...Petula," 1968: The sponsors, Chrysler Motor Corp., try unsuccessfully to quash a shocking sequence in this Petula Clark special. In the sequence, Petula's white hand rests momentarily on the black arm of Guest Star Harry Belafonte...
...long served as a testament to the need for governments to respect the dignity of individual achievement by bringing the best athletes in the world to compete in a peaceful arena. The IOC must ask whether this ideal is compatible with a government that consistently uses brute force to quash political and religious expression. Letting Beijing have the Games would, at best, send the wrong signal. At worst, it would embolden Beijing to commit even more flagrant infractions by showing that the international community will turn a blind eye to its abuses...
...fight. On March 17, after a $10 million, 45-day operation, he reopened and rebranded his 116 stores as the Pizza Company, the first Thai-based pizza chain. Tricon International, the multinational conglomerate that owns Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Taco Bell, has deployed its heavy artillery to quash the rebellion, opening 68 brand-new Pizza Huts throughout Thailand. "It's a battle between market experience versus brand loyalty,'' says Christopher Bruton, managing director of Data Consult, a market research firm based in Bangkok...