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...itself innately calls for forgiveness, and at the beginning of the controversy, most Catholics respected Law and his vision of Christian morals, including a concept of “limitless forgiveness.” Indeed, Law himself has delivered several homilies on the topic, both before and after the scandal surfaced. The lay Catholics had no reason to doubt his morals, and they could convince themselves that Law was just naive, which might have led him to forgive abusive priests...
After the year she's had, Martha Stewart could use some Christmas cheer. In the wake of her insider-trading scandal, she stopped appearing on CBS's The Early Show, resigned from the board of the New York Stock Exchange and saw her face removed from K Mart's holiday ads. But, overall, the season seems to be treating her well. K Mart says sales of Stewart's Everyday line of linens and housewares are up this year, and her new line of holiday wares--ornaments, wreaths, lights--is off to a fast start too. "People are separating Martha Stewart...
...team has run one of the best campaigns in Taiwan’s electoral history,” he said. “In my campaign we did not buy votes, nor did we resort to violence. Furthermore, we did not attack our opponents through verbal abuse, scandal-mongering or falsifying information...
...supposed scandal over the expulsion of sexually active “gays” in the 1920s has already received much more coverage than it deserves. The Crimson ought not seek to prolong it merely, as it seems, for the publicity that may accompany their calls for setting things right. Moreover, if The Crimson were to seek an accurate understanding of the College’s actions during those years, it would investigate as well whether the College expelled any students guilty of fornication or adultery. To focus simply on the expulsion of homosexual students only serves its agenda...
...West Bromwich Building Society in England's West Midlands, which recently began to offer Shari'a-compliant mortgages. And there are other obstacles. Because the universe of Shari'a-compliant stocks is limited, funds based on this type of investing tend to under-perform the market - an investor turnoff. Scandal has also taken its toll - in 2000, 17 former managers of the Dubai Islamic Bank were convicted of embezzling millions of dollars of investors' money. "Islamic banking is still a virgin territory," notes Rumman Faruqi, ceo of the London-based Institute of Islamic Banking and Insurance. "We have...