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Whether the faithful choose to read the 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...
Thus, Americans are in the position to accept responsibility for their schools, but they still need mediators to work out the implications of specific educational reforms. The PEPG conference implicitly acknowledges this need. As Shattuck Professor of Government Paul E. Peterson said, “The Supreme Court decision on Cleveland’s school voucher program has left many questions unanswered. This conference will do its best to supply answers to at least some of them.” The panelists promise evenhanded discussion—ushered in by a debate between a defender of school vouchers, Clint Bolick...
Mass. Hall sources have been unable to ascertain whether University President Lawrence H. Summers will accept FM’s offer to play an informal match of doubles tennis, whether he has even heard about FM’s offer to play an informal match of doubles tennis or, for that matter, whether he has ever heard of FM Publisher Kenyon S.M. “Backhand” Weaver...
Okusanya, who is now dating a Berklee student, says he didn’t accept her offer. He harbors no illusions about what drew this woman. Asked to attribute the role of his own irresistible qualities, Okusanya is blunt. “I think I’m more charming [to these girls] because I go to Harvard,” he says. “I would say 60 percent of it is my personality, and 40 is definitely because I go to Harvard. They assume that you’re some kind of super-genius...
...moment to savor, when a Republican Governor rises to accept the endorsement of a huge city teachers' union over his Democratic opponent, a former Board of Education president. "With this endorsement," declared George Pataki to the United Federation of Teachers, trying hard not to gloat, "we gain the support of more than a million members of organized labor across this state." He had already scooped up the health-care-workers' union and some of the state's biggest Democratic mayors and moneymen, leaving his opponent, Comptroller Carl McCall, with less than one-tenth as much money to spend and trailing...