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...frank discussion of sexual morality, celibacy, women priests or homosexuality, it's not likely to happen anytime soon. The usual diversions designed to avoid these subjects were thrown about with abandon. This is a purely American problem, some church spokesmen argued, as if scandals weren't exploding elsewhere: an ABC News report charged the Vatican itself with covering up abuse claims against a priest previously praised by the Pope. Then there was the scapegoating of gays. Equating homosexuality with child abuse is one of the oldest slanders there is - but this church didn't hesitate to invoke it to deflect...
...that evidence - with some nice geopolitical uncertainty thrown in for good measure - Wall Street is having trouble getting out bed in the morning. After the University of Michigan took the air out of the GDP number, the Dow and NASDAQ started to sag under IBM and Microsoft and not a few other heavywieghts, and after a last trading hour of total dejection, the Dow had had its worst week since September and was back under five digits at 9,910. The NASDAQ sank 49 to 1,663. Only bonds celebrated, and on the postgame shows, the capitulation-watch was back...
...scientist would think twice about entering any field that you could be thrown in jail for doing something you think is good, or a field where what’s legal could change from administration to administration,” Corlette said...
...Harvard Coach Joe Walsh gambled on Hendricks’ speed in the bottom of the fifth inning yesterday at Fenway Park, waving Hendricks around third on a Schuyler Mann single that had already scored one run to give the Crimson the lead. Hendricks was thrown out easily, and the one-run lead evaporated in the next inning as the Crimson fell to UMass, 5-3, in the Beanpot Consolation Game...
...That’s happened to us twice now,” Walsh said, referring to a successful double steal by Yale last weekend. “But if the catcher makes a good throw, it gives the shortstop a chance to react. When that ball’s thrown low like that, there’s not much you can do. But we’re not going to just let guys steal second base. We’re going to make a play...