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Administrators, in particular, have a special responsibility to do all that they can to address hate crimes. First and foremost, they must treat hate crimes as a serious issue. An anonymous reporting procedure, along with a written student code against ethnically motivated harassment, must be easily accessible to all students...
...prosecutor, judge, sentencer. Desperate to retain even sinful men, as the number of priests shrank alarmingly, and ever putting the image of the church first, bishops refined the system. Convince the family that publicity would harm the faith. Don't report to the police; don't warn the parish. Treat the priest with confession, time out at a discreet rehab center and Christian forgiveness; then let him resume duties at a new parish, the same way they dealt with whisky priests' alcoholism. For years the bishops believed, or made themselves believe, pedophilia could be "cured," until the serial molestations...
...said to cure migraines. It's one of the more common prescriptions in the Ayurvedic school of medicine, which is one of the world's oldest forms of healing. Practitioners have been using Ayurveda's techniques for thousands of years, prescribing gentle herbs, diet, hydrotherapy and medicinal enemas to treat an astonishing array of illnesses, including diabetes, asthma, arthritis and high blood pressure...
...That's the theory, at least. In reality, for any true medical benefit, you need at least two weeks' treatment. Anything less may reduce stress, but is unlikely to provide medicinal value. "If you have sinusitis, I need about two weeks to treat you. For paralysis, it's about three months," explains Dr. Deepthi, my physician in pink at Beruwela, on Sri Lanka's southwestern coast. Wait a minute?she's cured paralysis? "Of course," she shrugs, "but it's a very long treatment...
...guns to deter any unwanted attention. The trick I've adopted lately is wearing an Afghan costume and speaking a little Pashtu. It's allowed me to sneak in and out of the front lines with Afghan troops. But it has its downside. Soldiers think I'm Afghan and treat me like an Afghan. I've been manhandled and roughed up, and then I've had to reveal my identity...