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Prasse-Freeman orchestrated the Harvard offense to near-perfection at times, leading the Crimson on 17-2 and 11-1 runs. Prasse-Freeman, who just missed a double-double (nine points, 10 assists), sank two key free throws with six seconds remaining to seal the game...
...officials were pointing fingers elsewhere. German Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, perhaps the most powerful policymaker in Rome besides the Pope, told a Catholic news wire that the U.S. sex-abuse scandal was an "intentional, manipulated...desire to discredit the church" by the media. The conservative Ratzinger offered a virtual Vatican seal of approval for recent comments by two Latin American Cardinals--each considered possible papal successors--who also blamed the pedophilia crisis on the American press. Another sign of a hardening line in Rome came in a letter from Jorge Arturo Cardinal Medina Estevez published in a Vatican magazine last week...
...mature adults. But, says Jake Rice, head of the Canadian government's Science Advisory Secretariat, "the severe overfishing of adults meant that there were no adults to learn from. The fish now probably don't know how to migrate." And there is another possible brake on cod recovery - seals, which can eat up to 7 kg of the fish a day. Bowing to international pressure, the Canadian government virtually banned seal culling - which was aimed at reducing numbers and hence their impact on fish stocks - in the 1980s. From under 2 million in the 1970s, the Canadian seal herd...
...police. Yet I am unconvinced that those priests who have made confession with the cardinal, or other priests within court documents, deserve any fewer religious entitlements than do the laity who repent immoral acts that happen to be criminal. Ordinarily, any ordained Catholic would be defrocked for breaking the seal of confession, a sacrament of the church. And Law could not have been expected by any faithful Catholic to turn over to secular authorities seemingly penitent parishioners of any sort without violating church doctrine...
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