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...attempts are also likely to backfire (think Galileo and Martin Luther). In addition, at a time of a growing, worldwide shortage of priests (only 400 were ordained in the U.S. this year), such a ban is shortsighted. I am grateful that Sister Joan and her congregation are willing to accept the risk of speaking out on this issue. Many of us (myself included) who work within the church are afraid to speak out publicly for fear of losing our jobs. In the 21st century, that fact itself is a disgrace. MARGARET SMITH Rochester...
...doctors has been going on for a long time. Drugmakers ply doctors with gifts, and doctors, say the watchdogs, write pads of prescriptions in return. Now the A.M.A. (with the support of the drug companies) is planning an ad campaign to remind physicians what they can and can't accept...
...Hong Kong is not quite dead, but it is bleeding. It badly needs leaders that can rally the community to accept short-term pain for long-term benefit. Otherwise, Hong Kong in 10 years' time won't be a "Manhattan," let alone its "Plus," but something more like a "Shanghai Minus...
AUSTRALIA Asylum Seekers at Sea Aweeklong standoff over a refugee-laden ship ended after Australia devised a plan to send some 460 asylum seekers to other countries. New Zealand agreed to accept 150 of the migrants, while Australia will foot the bill for the tiny Pacific nation of Nauru to take the rest temporarily. The refugees had been in watery limbo ever since a Norwegian cargo ship, the Tampa, rescued them from a foundering wooden ferry off the Indonesian coast. They demanded that the skipper take them to the Australian territory of Christmas Island or to "any Western country...
...publications he controls, newspaper magnate Conrad Black transcends national categorization. Canadian-born and raised, he divides most of his time between Britain and the U.S. Earlier this year, motivated in part by bitterness over Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's refusal in 1999 to let him accept a British peerage, he renounced his Canadian citizenship. Two weeks ago, in a move that signaled the extent to which his focus has moved beyond Canada, Black announced that his holding company Hollinger would sell its 50% remaining stake in the country's National Post, which he founded...