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...scandal refers to the 1986 weekend furlough release of Willie Horton, who was serving a life sentence for murder in a Massachusetts prison. Horton did not return to jail after his furlough and subsequently raped a woman twice, after assaulting her fiancé in April...
...successful international development strategy. As Harvard University President Emeritus Lawrence H. Summers observed years ago in a speech to a Development Economics Seminar at the World Bank, “When one takes into account all its benefits, educating girls yields a higher rate of return than any other investment available in the developing world.” A 2010 World Bank “News and Broadcast” article in honor of International Women’s Day corroborates Summers’ declaration, noting that a “one-year increase in the schooling of all adult...
...that my thesis is done, and I have completed all of my academic requirements for graduation, it feels weird to return to those white marble halls. What purpose do I have there now? It feels like being there will never be the same, and that I have lost something once of importance...
Oona’s boasts a dedicated clientele who often return with family and friends many years later, White said...
...Vatican (over the heads of local bishops), people like former Archbishop Bernard Law of Boston were able to keep reports from spreading, hush up victims and relocate offending priests, without either the Vatican or civil authorities knowing. This system was deeply flawed, and to advocate even a partial return to it shows only a deep ignorance of the history of the issue. Furthermore, although I agree that the tone of the letter you quoted from “USA Today” was perhaps overcooked in calling the Pope a martyr, you fail to address its central claim: that...