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...record: Harry Lewis’ firing was shameful, this resourceful University ought to be able to find grant money for every senior who wants to do something worthwhile for a year after graduation, it is a scandal that some concentrations entrust the grading of theses to graduate students rather than professors, and affirmative action is indispensable to higher education...
...have followed the child abuse scandal would be able to discern in Law the vestiges of a college student who came across to many who knew him as the pious paragon of Catholic virtue...
When a powerful politician was ar-rested last week in connection with the child-abuse scandal that has rocked Portugal since last November, it brought hope that the country's creaky, excruciatingly slow justice system was finally getting into gear. The detention of Paulo Pedroso, Socialist M.P. and former minister, was hailed by lawyers and commentators as a sign that the wealthy and influential were no longer untouchable. And so what if the police used investigating techniques that might be deemed unacceptable in other countries? Although not commenting on the merits of particular arrests, Lisbon lawyer Francisco O'Neill Marques...
...Portugal. He is suspected of 15 cases of sexual violence against minors, which allegedly took place between 1999 and 2000. Ritto, 67, who retired last year, also denied allegations of abusing children and accused the media of conducting a "lynching." His name has featured prominently in the Casa Pia scandal for decades. In 1981, police accused the caretaker of a Casa Pia home of raping dozens of children over a period of 30 years, and supplying children to Ritto and others. The police even had photographs taken by one of four men pictured sexually abusing young children. Ritto denied...
...earlier summit in Nassau was that Kennedy told Macmillan he had to have sex once a day or he would get a headache. This story has been largely discounted, but now it has new currency. The friends and admirers of Kennedy are disappointed once again. The steady procession of scandal is nibbling away at his credibility as a leader. The excess, the recklessness of his actions stuns almost everyone. Old gossip gets new legs, like the story of the ravishing Indian journalist spotted by Kennedy in the Rose Garden and promptly invited to dinner at the White House...