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...Castrillon - speaking during an unrelated press conference Friday a - answered reporters' questions on the U.S. proposal. ''The trust that the priest has in his bishop, that can't be passed through the external conditioning of a state'' - a reference to the Dallas proposal's requirement that bishops report any suspicion of sexual abuse to civil authorities. Later, Castrillon said: ''For the Church, the statute of limitations isn't merely a matter of juridical expediency.'' The U.S. bishops have asked to punish guilty priests beyond the canon law limit of 10 years after the victim's 18th birthday. But perhaps most...
...suspicion, when I heard they were looking for me in Bermuda, that they were taking some junkets,” Ellsberg said, drawing laughter from the audience...
When they began finding polar bears with both male and female sex organs, scientists had a suspicion about what might be causing the deformities. The industrial chemicals known as PCBs, which have polluted land and water all over the world, tend to become concentrated in animals' fatty tissues. Seals, which are the bears' main source of food, are essentially blobs of blubber with flippers attached. And because PCBs are thought to mimic estrogen, some experts fear that even low-level exposure could wreak havoc with a bear's reproductive system...
...Investors' concerns about the candidate's economic maturity and ability to rein in Brazil's tendency to over-borrow and overspend appear to ignore the fact that the country's erratic economic performance over the last few years has occurred on the watch of certified free-marketeers. Ideological suspicion rather than the hard reality of policies appears to be guiding decision-making in the world's financial centers in the weeks prior to the vote. Lula's supporters point to his party's successes in turning the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, which it has ruled...
...willing to pursue disarmament, the a priori goal of "regime-change" is not widely shared, and language as intemperate as Fleischer's - and more sober comments by other Administration officials suggesting that action may be necessary no matter what the outcome of the inspection process - is likely to reinforce suspicion that the U.S. is simply trying to trigger an internationally-sanctioned invasion. But the position of the Russians and others that no new resolutions are necessary is likely to reinforce U.S. and British impatience with the UN. President Bush on Tuesday again urged the UN to "show its backbone...