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...total lie, not just to me but to the people." The Dublin archdiocese now has 26 abuse cases pending. A television expos? two weeks ago described a variety of serious lapses in the way the archdiocese has dealt with abusing priests, prompting Connell to declare "my own deep regret for serious inadequacies in our response." He has named a commission headed by a respected former judge to investigate. But it appears to be too little too late. Fear that the commission would be cozy with the church led the government to announce its own inquiry last week, a move that...
...meantime, my father and I did learn spoken English relatively well—so much so that within six years of our respective arrival (my father came in 1944, while my mother and I came in 1946), we had become American citizens. My mother, much to her regret, remained Portuguese. She could never pass the standard U.S. Naturalization exam, an exercise which most native-born Americans would be equally unable to pass...
...like the war against Iraq a decade ago, with a decisive liberation of territory and a swift conclusion," the President said in his address to Congress on Sept. 20, 2001. Five days later, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told reporters that "it will not be an antiseptic war, I regret to say. It will be difficult. It will be dangerous. The likelihood is that more people may be lost." Armchair generals filled the airwaves with frets about the coming quagmire, pointing out that Afghanistan's forbidding terrain and wily guerrillas had sent two great powers packing in the past. This...
...Algerian at all rather than just French. Brought to France when he was only months old by his Algerian-born parents, Mesbah has spent his entire life in Toulouse. A bout of adolescent rebelliousness made him forgo the French citizenship his eight siblings obtained, something he must now regret. The 1994 shooting of his younger sister scarred Mesbah, affidavits from psychologists note, and contributed to his subsequent abuse of alcohol and reliance on petty crime. His conviction for attempted murder stems from a 1995 altercation with nightclub doormen; when he was refused entry, Mesbah fired shots at the bouncers, wounding...
...heats of the 5,000 m she held up a homemade banner reading "epo cheats out" to protest the inclusion of Russia's Olga Yegorova, who had tested positive for the oxygen-boosting drug, erythro-poetin, and was banned, but was reinstated on a technicality. Radcliffe doesn't regret her stand. "That protest was not against Yegorova," she says. "It was against all epo cheats. The testing impetus and development had stood still. I feel this helped turn the tide." In April Radcliffe won her first full marathon in memorable fashion: beating a world-class field in London...