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...took advantages of our opportunities,” VanderMeulen said, “and we didn’t make that many small mistakes...
Instead, I raced to hand over my cell phone and cash while my roommate stood five feet away, doing nothing. It must’ve been the easiest 20,000 pesos that man had ever made. I’m not really sure how long this whole transaction took, but it was somewhere in the range of 60 seconds, and then it was done. I was mugged. I was stranded a hundred blocks from my apartment in a foreign city with nary a centavo. Would I have to become a drug mule and smuggle ten pounds of cocaine...
...exactly what made Hansen snap - and why she didn't seek help or pursue other avenues, like putting the boy up for adoption in the U.S. - is still a mystery. Hansen reportedly consulted a psychologist but never took her son in for a session. There's no evidence she sought help from her adoption agency, child-welfare authorities in Tennessee or even the well-regarded International Adoption Clinic at Vanderbilt University in nearby Nashville. The media that have descended on Hansen's home have not gleaned much insight. The boy, whom Hansen renamed Justin, did not attend school...
...month, Pope Benedict XVI's silence has been driving the clergy sex-abuse crisis. His reference on Thursday to the need of "penance" for the church, which is "under attack," is unlikely to stem criticism. But this week, the Vatican's No. 2 man, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, also took a stab at changing the narrative - and complicated matters...
...comment, starting with Chilean activist Rolando Jimenez, who called it part of a "perverse strategy by the Vatican to try to escape its own responsibility" for allowing abusive priests to go unchecked. More telling was criticism from within the church. U.S.-based Jesuit writer Father James Martin publicly took on Bertone, disputing the research behind the theory and pointing out that the Pope himself declined to cite a correlation between homosexuality and sex abuse of minors when asked by reporters on the papal plane in 2008. Finally, after the French embassy to the Holy See issued a rare statement...