Word: withdrawn
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Joseph Cardinal Bernardin sits in his fourth-floor office at the Chicago archdiocese two days after a suit against him alleging sexual abuse has been withdrawn. He has got calls from the Pope and the First Lady on his red phone, the only dash of color in the severely plain room. He turns away from his marble conference table to point at the window he looked out on the day before the suit was filed last November. He remembers seeing a few reporters huddled below near the canopy of the Barclay hotel, peering up at his office. Every time...
...Hart has withdrawn from the college for thissemester and is in California. Citing his distancefrom the college, he refused to comment onTsakonas...
...apparent success of the NATO ultimatum in Sarajevo has really just begun Western involvement in the country. While many Serbian guns have withdrawn from the hilltops around the capital, the larger task of crafting a solution to the fighting remains...
...skater Nancy Kerrigan -- a contender for an Olympic gold medal -- as she practiced for the U.S. championships in Detroit. The assailant struck Kerrigan in the knee with a club and fled. The attack was reminiscent of the stabbing of tennis star Monica Seles in Germany last year. Kerrigan has withdrawn from the nationals but may yet compete in the Olympic Games next month, if the U.S. Figure Skating Association decides to offer her a place on the team...
...suit was never filed. In fact, despite a meeting on the matter between Hillary and an executive from the opposing S&L, Denton learned several days later that Hillary had suddenly withdrawn from the case. Why? She had discovered that her prestigious Rose Law Firm was already representing the opposing thrift in another case. "The conflict issue should have been resolved earlier," complains Denton. Bruce Lindsey, a senior adviser to the President and an old Arkansas friend, defends the action. "Assuming this happened, I don't see why this is important or unusual," he said...