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...nation's bishops thought they were going to have a quiet get-together last week in St. Louis, Mo., the site of their annual spring meeting, they were quickly disabused of that notion. The resignation of Frank Keating, the former Oklahoma Governor who was chair of the Conference of Catholic Bishops' lay review board, reopened the festering controversy over whether the church has adequately dealt with the scandal arising from allegations of sexual abuse by priests...
Unfortunately, the communities aren't immune to the prejudices that plague society at large. At the Palms, located on a quiet suburban street near a Baptist church, teenagers on a couple of random occasions have driven by the entrance screaming homophobic epithets. Another time, the decorative concrete seahorses next to the pond were overturned at night. "We have to be careful not to label things automatically as homophobia. The vandalism could just have been mischievous kids," resident Ernie Settanni says...
...Setting the Standard: The Harvard Law School Campaign,” which is the largest fund drive the school has ever conducted, has already raised more than $170 million in a low-profile “quiet phase” that lasted two years...
Ironically, even though it was the Law School policy that won outright court approval, the Michigan Law Quad remained relatively quiet in the aftermath of the decision...
...charge of murder, which carries a maximum sentence of death and a minimum of 10 years in jail. (It's not known if U.S. citizen Mua will face the same charge.) So far, the response from the detained foreigners' governments has been muted. They may be banking on quiet diplomacy to free the trio. But in the long run, unless the international community is willing to speak out against and act on the atrocities committed by the Vientiane regime, these merry Marxists will continue to get away with murder...