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...made my vow of chastity, but that did nothing to remove the strength of desire, to which I have succumbed in passing fashion." ABB? PIERRE, 93-year-old Roman Catholic priest and one of France's most revered public figures, suggesting he has had sex, in a book excerpted last week
...likable, can-do surgeon and two-time cancer survivor is known for taking on outsize tasks, reflected best in his controversial vow to "end suffering and death due to cancer" by 2015. In a letter to the heads of major U.S. cancer centers, he talked up the virtue of having the FDA and NCI "work together" to smooth the path from lab bench to bedside...
...goes better than his Social Security proposal, advisers tell TIME there is once again talk of replacing Treasury Secretary John Snow. There are no plans to delay tax cuts to pay for the New Orleans reconstruction or the Iraq war, and Bush is likely to follow through on his vow to veto anticipated congressional approval of increased federal funding for embryonic-stem-cell research...
...pullout has neared, activists from outside the strip have blocked highways, spread nails on roads and sought to crowd into the settlements to thwart the evacuation with their bodies. Israeli police estimate that more than 2,500 have smuggled themselves into Gush Katif; some plan to test Sharon's vow to use the army to remove any who try to resist the evacuation, pressing their slogan, "Jews don't deport Jews." The opposition--which is dominated by an assortment of far-right settlers from the West Bank, messianic rabbis, religious extremists and restless teenagers--has virtually hijacked the disengagement issue...
...that the group had made promises in the past without ever fully giving up violence--or the intimidation of witnesses to foil prosecutions. To address the doubters, Cabinet members in London and Dublin asked a watchdog agency to report next January on whether the I.R.A. is sticking to its vow. "It's time to put some meat on the bones," said Alan McBride, whose wife and father-in-law were killed by a 1993 I.R.A. bomb...