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...business in Indonesia, even after the Bali attack, Helzer says. But the company has been gradually shifting production elsewhere. In 1998, Indonesia accounted for 34% of Nike's total footwear output; this year that share will be in the "high 20s," according to Helzer. Meanwhile, Vietnam has skyrocketed from zero in 1995 to about 15% of production and Thailand's share has increased to about 15%. China remains the heavyweight, accounting for nearly 40% of production this year. In Indonesia, "We didn't see a whole lot of room for growth," Helzer says...
...Meanwhile, writer-reporter Brian Bennett and contributing reporter Andrew Perrin both flew to Kuta, ground zero of the Oct. 12 blasts, to construct the definitive account of that night. Shocked by the devastation they encountered, both sought the only shelter at hand?their work. "At first I was trying to hold it together," says Bennett, "but then after seeing yet another body and another person breaking down, it finally got to me. I had to walk out of interviews shaking my head and taking deep breaths." For Perrin, an Australian, being on the scene where so many of his countrymen...
...asked to punish guilty priests beyond the canon law limit of 10 years after the victim's 18th birthday. But perhaps most noteworthy was Castrillon's citing, on three different occasions, of the Christian notion of thee '"conversion" of sinners - a sign that the U.S. bishops' underlying approach of zero-tolerance may itself be unacceptable to the Vatican...
...glass as half-full or half-empty, the Vatican's negative response to proposals from U.S. Catholic Bishops on handling sexual abuse within the Church is unlikely to resolve the crisis. The Vatican on Friday declined to accept the "Dallas charter" adopted by U.S. bishops, which recommends a zero-tolerance policy that would remove from priestly duties any clergyman who had ever molested a minor, and also requires all sex-abuse charge to be reported to the police. Instead, the Vatican called for further study by a panel of eight clergymen - four appointed by Rome, four by the U.S. bishops...
Simple reasoning dictates that the Z-list does not simply help legacy students, but also hurts others—the competition for spots at a place like Harvard is a zero-sum game, and for every under-qualified legacy that is allowed in via the Z-list, another student’s chance to come here is eliminated...