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...make one more likely to sexually abuse children. For instance, Father Gerard McGlone, a Jesuit psychologist and a vice president of Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, believes some tightening of the admission process is appropriate: "I think to a certain extent the Vatican is correct in trying to weed out unhealthy expressions of the homosexual experience." But he is also worried that tougher guidelines might backfire by encouraging gay or sexually confused priests to deceive themselves about their own orientation, which could lead to a subsequent crisis and pathology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Screening The Priests | 10/9/2005 | See Source »

...people most familiar with her legal instincts did not provide much reassurance. "My theory is that she is going to be a Justice very much like Sandra Day O'Connor," says Gary Rice, in words that might cheer moderates but spook anyone looking for someone with a weed whacker who will go after liberal rulings of the past 30 years. "If she moves the law, it will be in small steps. She won't be one to say, 'Let's just throw all that out and do something different.'" One of the most intriguing insights into the Real Harriet Miers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Two Knocks on Miers | 10/9/2005 | See Source »

Capitalism, of course, is supposed to weed out such inefficiencies. But in the American system, the shuttle's expense made the program politically attractive. Originally projected to cost $5 million per flight in today's dollars, each shuttle launch instead runs to around $500 million. Aerospace contractors love the fact that the shuttle launches cost so much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Space Shuttle Must Be Stopped | 7/28/2005 | See Source »

...contrast, Kelly's career is built on a mattress. Even if his new album, with such songs as Sex Weed and (Sex) Love Is What We Makin', survives the taint of creepiness--and it's a credit to his skills as a hitmaker that it almost does--the prosecution's key piece of evidence is available to anyone with an Internet connection. It's an explicit 26-minute video (widely believed to be one of the most bootlegged in history) called R. Kelly Exposed. Once you've seen the visuals--their authenticity is questioned by Kelly's lawyer, though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viewpoint: The Best Defense ... | 7/17/2005 | See Source »

...predilection for dirty sex with women of age. That’s all well and good as cockeyed legal strategy, but I want more than mediocre sex-with-me-is-like-great-chronic metaphors. (I’m serious. This is entirety of track 12: “Sex Weed...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Singer Breaks Bizarre Ground | 7/15/2005 | See Source »

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