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...CONVICTED. BISHOP THOMAS O'BRIEN, 68, Roman Catholic bishop and former head of Arizona's largest diocese; of fleeing the scene of a fatal car accident after running into a drunken jaywalker; in Phoenix. O'Brien, whose windshield was cracked in the crash, said he thought he had hit a dog or a rock. The accident occurred two weeks after he signed an immunity agreement admitting he had allowed clergy accused of sexual abuse to continue working with minors...
...puts it. And his marketing department has been working overtime. Lining the streets of the CBD, in time for this week's Requiem at the Opera House, are banners welcoming Gelmetti to the city, with a portrait of the maestro looking as grave and august as a Roman emperor: All hail Gianluigi! When he first saw the street signs, "I was very touched by this manifestation of love from Sydney," Gelmetti recalls. "I was very near to piangere...
...Italian sunshine" that De Waart hoped Gelmetti would bring to the technically assured SSO. With his arrival at the orchestra, Rome would seem to come to Sydney, as the Verdi Requiem marketing goes. "He was born in Rome" - to a businessman father and poetess mother - "and he's deeply Roman," Gelmetti's Rome Opera concertmaster Vicenzo Bolognese has said. "Romans can keep the right distance with power - a true Roman can act politically without becoming too involved." As chief conductor since April 2000, Gelmetti has helped revive that city's ailing Opera House, as well as the musical reputations...
...debate over stem-cell research, whether those cells come from cloning or from conventional in-vitro fertilization, is far from over, at least in the U.S. Right-to-life and religious groups, including the Roman Catholic Church, believe that human life begins at conception and thus that harvesting stem cells is tantamount to murder. With views like that on one side and high-profile advocates like Christopher Reeve and Michael J. Fox touting the benefits of therapeutic cloning on the other, the Bush Administration has tried to split the difference. In August 2001 the President declared that the U.S. government...
...Jordan (tribes.co.uk) After taking in the country's top sights-cliff-clinging Petra, the Roman city of Jerash, sand-worn desert castles and the Red Sea-you can tent down (surprisingly comfortably) with nomadic Bedouins and sleep well, knowing that 75% of the profits from the camping are channeled back to the host nation...