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...Roman Catholic Church. Just last week Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland acknowledged paying $450,000 in 1998 to settle a claim that two decades ago he sexually assaulted a 30-year-old graduate student. (The Vatican accepted his resignation a day after the revelation.) Add the Weakland settlement to the huge sums other dioceses have paid to cover sex-abuse claims in recent years: an estimated $25 million in Santa Fe, N.M.; nearly $30 million in Boston; and $31 million in Dallas...
...vain to get around California laws preventing access to church documents in a sex-abuse case last year. By releasing so little financial information, the Los Angeles archdiocese and Orange County diocese, reputed to be among the wealthiest in the country, were able to negotiate a relatively small settlement--$5.2 million--which they delivered in just 15 days...
Thanks to her investigative efforts, residents of Hinkley, Calif., won a settlement against Pacific Gas & Electric for contaminating their groundwater. And thanks to her, Julia Roberts won an Academy Award for depicting that struggle. Now Brockovich brings TIME's Michele Orecklin up to date on her life since the movie...
...until attacks on Israelis have ended and the PA has been reformed. His Labor Party coalition partners, sensing the possibility of an early election, have resurrected the Clinton proposals for Israeli withdrawal from most of the West Bank and Gaza and sharing Jerusalem as the basis for a political settlement. And Foreign Minister Shimon Peres is floating a proposal to begin immediate negotiations over Palestinian statehood by getting the U.S. and its diplomatic partners to provide the necessary security guarantees until such time as the PA has been mended...
...even as the Palestinians battle over internal reform and the Israelis lock horns over the shape and timetable of a final political settlement, the security vacuum threatens to eclipse all of those discussions. Indeed, the continued potential for terror attacks inside Israel and for a large-scale IDF retaliation suggests that the current calm may simply be the lull before the next storm...