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Tuesday, Cardinal Bernard F. Law ’53 began a civil deposition in Suffolk County courthouse regarding, among other things, a settlement that his Financial Council refused to accept between several church officals, including Law, and 86 victims of priest John J. Geoghan. This disturbing refusal completely disregards the archdiocese’s responsibility to compensate those who were sexually abused by Geoghan—especially after Law reassigned him to parishes several times after he was a known child molester. While it is impossible to replace these victims’ damaged childhoods, a financial settlement both acknowledges...
...Meanwhile, New York Attorney General Elliot Spitzer - who tore the last fig leaf off the opinions-for-sale game by releasing internal Merrill Lynch emails scoffing at stocks the analysts were publicly promoting - is talking settlement with Merrill, attempting to make over the firm as a model for a more trustworthy Wall Street...
When last we checked in with that crazy, love-struck couple JACK WELCH and SUZY WETLAUFER, she was taking a leave of absence from her job and he was confronting the leave of half his $900 million fortune in a divorce settlement with his second wife. The reason for both losses was the romantic relationship sparked when Wetlaufer, the editor of the Harvard Business Review, interviewed Welch, the retired head of GE, for a story in her publication. But the saga continues now that journalists have dug into her past. Wetlaufer was supposed to return to HBR as an editor...
...Nimer writes. “A massive Palestinian nonviolent and popular campaign to resist the military in the occupied territories will leave no room for the accusation that Palestinians support terrorism. It will also draw the entire community in actively resisting the new Israeli military presence and settlement...
...Likud Party is due to vote in a little over a week to reject the principle of any Palestinian state west of the Jordan River, which would preclude the two-state solution being pursued by Washington. And while Secretary of State Colin Powell is calling for an end to settlement activities in the West Bank and Gaza, Sharon continues to insist that the settlements are sacrosanct. A little over a week ago, he proclaimed that the fate of Netzarim (a remote settlement in Gaza where hundreds of soldiers guard a few dozen families) is the fate of Tel Aviv...