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Gone is the Bears’ all-time hits leader, Dan Kantrovitz, but Brown returns its All-Ivy right side of the infield. 1B Shaun Gallagher hit .375 last year, while 2B Rob Deeb slugged .404. Jonathan Stern is the team ace after posting a 1.92 ERA last year, the ninth-lowest mark in the nation...
Mullah Palawan is a large, jovial man. He tries to keep his face stern but breaks out in cheeky smiles when he thinks no one is looking. Hajji Mullah Sahib is a drawn, rakish figure. Conversation stops when he enters the room. In the past, his religious scholarship lent authority to the Taliban. He and others like him from the regime's theological vanguard preached the righteousness of Mullah Omar's government, and thousands listened. They still do in the Pakistani madrasah, or religious school, where he teaches today...
Dioceses lapsed into a pattern of denial and deception. They treated sexual pathology as a moral failure and crime as a religious matter. The Roman Catholic Church is a stern hierarchy that has always kept its deliberations secret, policed itself and issued orders from the top. An obedient priest moves up in power by keeping his head down, winning rewards for bureaucratic skills and strict orthodoxy. When Cardinals are created, they take a vow before the Pope to "keep in confidence anything that, if revealed, would cause a scandal or harm to the church." When it came to sex abuse...
...with her prize student Walter (Benoit Magimel) yet engages in masochistic mutilation on her own. Erika would be quite a handful for any actress, but the great Huppert has a sure grasp on her. In this kinky, often goofy, never less than fascinating psychodrama, she makes sense of a stern, extreme personality. Huppert could be speaking to the audience as well as to Walter when she says, "I want all you want. I have all you need...
...suspicious movement south of the perimeter. Then comes small-arms fire, followed by the whoomp of an incoming rocket-propelled grenade. Tracers show a stream of outgoing rounds in reply. Afghan soldiers fighting with the Americans send their own RPGs into the night. The local Afghan commander, a short, stern man called Ismael, says they were plundered from a store of Taliban weapons he has discovered. His men try to fire illumination rounds, but two of three pop straight up. "We're helping the enemy more than we're helping ourselves," a U.S. soldier says with a laugh. The special...