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...came as many American Catholics remain livid over the church's recent pedophilia scandals. Benedict agreed in remarks to U.S. bishops that the issue had been "sometimes very badly handled"--the first real admission of the church's culpability--but still found enough blame to lay on America's "wider context of sexual mores" as well. The Pope's political reflexes will be tested again and again as he seeks to shepherd a flock that does not always share the certainties of its leaders, sacred and secular alike...
...Hulu does have huge gaps. You can fill in those gaps two ways. One is with money: Apple's pay-per-download iTunes store has a wider selection of TV shows and movies than Hulu, as does Amazon's Unbox service. Two is with your immortal soul: you can download all this stuff for free, illegally, via LimeWire, BitTorrent and lots of other file-sharing systems...
However, the Pope also made a point of placing the response to the scandal in "a wider context of sexual mores," citing pornography and the decline of traditional family models. "What does it mean to speak of child protection when pornography and violence can be viewed in so many homes through media widely available today?" It remains to be seen which Catholics will find most meaningful: Benedict's groundbreaking but guarded admission or his contextualization of abuse in what he sees as a general U.S. trend toward loose, if legal sexual practices...
...only up to a point. The effects triggered by chronically elevated levels of testosterone can eventually have the opposite effect. Animals observed in this same situation by scientists start to pick fights they ought to avoid, or to patrol a wider, more hazardous patch of territory. Perception of risk becomes blurred. For a trader on a roll in the midst of a bubble, for instance, that suggests "several rounds of winning means testosterone so high they start taking stupid risks," says John Coates, a former Wall Street trader turned senior research fellow at Cambridge, and lead author of the study...
...Penn’s departure on Sunday reflects a wider rise-and-fall trend among advisors on the campaign trail. Persistent sniping between surrogates and consultants has provided prime fodder for a political contest of tense and competitive edge. The transcript reads like a bureaucratized soap opera: Clinton New Hampshire co-chairman Bill Shaheen resigned after suggesting that Obama’s past drug use would hurt his chances in the general election. Similarly, Obama adviser and Harvard faculty member Samantha Power had to step down from her campaign position after dramatically labeling Clinton a “monster...