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...church would benefit from penitential resignations at the top. Says an editorial in the upcoming issue of the national Roman Catholic weekly America: "If early on some bishops had been willing to claim full responsibility and resign, victims, parishes, the media and juries might have been less inclined to vent their anger on the church as a whole. That not one bishop (except the two who were themselves abusers) has resigned during this 15-year-long crisis is astonishing...
...Although Cheney had hoped to push the Iraq issue, his visit allowed Arab leaders an opportunity to vent their frustrations over U.S. support for Israel. And the Vice President was not helped by fact that his trip coincided with the heaviest Israeli military operations into the West Bank and Gaza since...
...Once there was a vent with a string attached and the motion detector kept picking up the string and setting off the alarm. We got the same alarm call three times in one day,” DiVirgilio laughs...
...some Catholics, as was the case with Fr. D. George Spagnolia earlier this month. Law discarded the program for his meeting with 3,000 lay Catholic leaders this week, and instead took the time to simply listen to the faithful, hear their concerns, and let them vent their frustrations to him. On Saturday the Cardinal’s Commission for the Protection of Children, to which several national experts—including Harvard Medical School’s own Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Donna M. Norris and Professor of Psychiatry Edwin H. Cassem—have been named, will...
...fantasy would be the germination of Oyamada's own career. (He acquired his musical pseudonym, Cornelius, from the name of a friendly simian in the 1968 movie Planet of the Apes.) But instead of platform leather boots, pancake makeup and pyrotechnic stage shows, Oyamada would go on to vent his wild side through his uninhibited, almost childlike sonic stylings. This obsessive fascination with music as an aural portal to his (and our) more Dionysian alter egos made his 1998 album Fantasma an international breakthrough. The charged orgy of crunchy metal riffs, mutated Disney-like anthems and psychedelic vocals propelled...