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...Specter who is the underdog. Toomey - who stresses fiscal issues and downplays his conservatism on social issues - has been leading in most of the recent polls. He's raised more money than any other Senate challenger in the country, thanks in part to backing from the Club for Growth, a well-funded antitax organization, which Toomey ran from 2005 to 2009. He is also a favorite of Tea Party activists, who account for so much political energy on the right these days. "It's an uphill battle in the general - no ifs, ands or buts about it," says Pennsylvania...
...policy above politics. You can disagree with the policies, but not with Bush's sincere belief in them. And even though the war in Iraq remains one of the worst decisions ever made by an American President, the possibility of stability in Iraq, raised again by the recent elections, makes it, potentially, a mitigated disaster. Rove is less successful in defending himself: the crucial revelation here is that when you make a political consultant your senior policy adviser, spin supplants substance, oppo research rules and winning the news cycle becomes more important than winning...
...global downturn, and people's attitudes toward the museum quickly changed. "Admission: one pot of gold, to be sure and begorrah," the Irish Sunday Tribune mocked in the headline of a derisive article about the museum last month. The blogosphere, too, has been fizzing with indignation in recent months. "Truly the Jedward of museums," railed one Twitter poster, referring to the Irish singing twins John and Edward Grimes, who appeared on Simon Cowell's The X Factor talent show in the U.K. and Ireland last year. (The twins became more famous for their garishly colored matching attire and bouncy dance...
...that tender image has been shattered by recent allegations that young singers in the famed Regensburger Domspatzen choir, which the elder Ratzinger directed from 1964 to 1994, have suffered sexual abuse and beatings at the hands of priests since the 1950s. Though the retired Ratzinger, 86, denies any knowledge of sexual abuse during his time with the choir, he has admitted to slapping several singers and apologized for not having intervened to limit the crueler beatings that have been alleged by others. (See pictures of the Pope in the Holy Land...
...Chris Weisner, spokesman for the German Catholic reform organization We Are Church, says the group's sex-abuse hotline has received an average of six calls a day from alleged victims in recent weeks and that 18 of Germany's 27 dioceses have been touched by the scandal. "Abuse is widespread," Weisner tells TIME. "The church is investigating the cases very reluctantly. [But] it has a duty to uphold moral standards. Catholics in Germany are extremely disappointed and angry...