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Midway through a monotone recitation of his accomplishments to Hispanic conventioneers in Los Angeles last Friday, Governor Gray Davis, his blue suit perfectly pressed, stood ramrod straight on the podium and made an admission that came as no surprise. "My wife has all the charisma," Davis said. "I have zero." That same day his Republican opponent, Bill Simon Jr., was in Salinas, also courting Hispanic voters. Simon's message fell flat for a different reason. His campaign was reeling after Thomas Davis III, who heads the Republican party's Congressional Campaign Committee, called Simon's effort the "single worst...
There are signs the vatican has little tolerance for zero tolerance. The Holy See last week finally responded to the plan U.S. bishops devised in June for handling abusive priests. Rome wants "further reflection on and revision of" the proposal, which says any priest found to have ever sexually abused a minor, even once, can never minister again...
Back in June, dissenting U.S. church leaders said the zero-tolerance proviso casts aside notions of forgiveness and redemption, but they didn't carry the day. Now Dario Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos, who heads a key Vatican office that will help write the final policy, is echoing the disagreement. He said at a press conference on Friday that the bishops slighted "fundamental principles of the church," including "conversion," the basic idea that sinners can change...
...banding together in advocacy groups linked by the Internet. Nowhere has it been easy to square the church's 2000-year-old traditions of priestly authority and institutional survival with modern notions of accountability. Last week, a committee of American and Vatican bishops was redrafting the American bishops' proposed "zero tolerance" policy toward sexual abuse by priests that the Vatican had rejected as too harsh. But in Ireland, where the church's power has for centuries been pervasive, the damage caused by pedophile priests has been particularly corrosive. Collins' case shows why. In 1996, when McGennis was still serving...
Similarly, critics are concerned that attaching students to Houses early on would work to undermine first-year cohesiveness. But social life is not a zero-sum game. Giving students a feeling of belonging in a House community will not detract from the bonding that happens between members of a new class. The reason that first-years feel strong bonds is that they they live in and around the Yard—in the winter months they seem to be penned in—and they have the opportunity to eat in Annenberg. These experiences work to foster connections between students...