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Despite concerns that such an exercise would devolve into a witch hunt, he contends it may acquit rather than implicate the clergy as a whole. Given the coercive pressure that priests were under, he says, a 10% cooperation rate is surprisingly low. The Polish church, he says, may go down as "a church of martyrs - not informers." The worst part is not knowing which...
...past year following the election of a right-wing, anti-communist coalition government led by twin brothers who began their careers battling communists alongside Lech Walesa and the Solidarity trade union movement. Cardinal Jozef Glemp, who is standing in for Wielgus until the Vatican names a replacement, said a witch-hunt is under way: "Today Archbishop Wielgus was tried. But what kind of trial is carried out on the basis of scraps of paper?" he told the congregation at St. John's after Wielgus stepped down. "We don't want such trials...
Take three minutes of “The Blair Witch Project,” change the soundtrack to a catchy but repetitive pop song, and you’ve got something that resembles the Fray’s new video for “How to Save a Life.” The video, which seems to be about the death of the lead singer’s friend whom he wishes he could have saved, would be genuinely emotional if not for its overwhelmingly flat aesthetics. The dull tones of the suburban setting, the harsh industrial lighting...
...including the ones into the White House's questionable campaign fund-raising practices, and once led a Democratic walkout when Republicans released a report on the firing of White House travel-office workers. While Waxman promises what he calls oversight, the Republicans say it'll be more like a witch hunt, and the Administration is promising to fight him all the way to the Supreme Court to protect itself against what it expects to be a frontal assault on Executive power. Waxman says the G.O.P. should take comfort in the fact that he has historical perspective. "I've seen...
...Other Indonesians voiced their disapproval for Bush's visit in more unusual ways. One of the nation's top witch-doctors, Gendheng Pamungkas, says he is perfecting a voodoo spell he will cast on Bush while he is in Indonesia. Tropical downpours, Gendheng says, will mar the American President's stay, scheduled for the tea-plantation retreat of Bogor rather than Jakarta, partly because of safety concerns. Confusing father and son's vegetable dislikes, Gendheng also promises to "turn the broccoli against Bush" - a vaguely threatening if puzzling hex. "I am casting this spell because it is what the majority...