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...reform group We Are Church. Papal officials, however, defend Benedict's silence. "The Pope was not part of what happened back then, and he shouldn't be part of it now," says a Vatican insider. Indeed, the Vatican has mounted an aggressive campaign to portray the scandals as an attempt to besmirch the Pope and discredit the church as a whole. "Over recent days some people have sought, with considerable persistence ... [to] personally involve the Holy Father in questions of abuse," Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said in a written commentary. Another senior official goes further. "They want to involve...
Then the failed Christmas bombing attempt on a Detroit-bound airliner gave the GOP an opening. Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani launched a campaign against the trials, saying they could lead to new terrorist attacks against the city, while Republicans on Capitol Hill prepared to kill the Holder plan by simply defunding the civilian proceedings - just as they had defunded any domestic alternative to Guantánamo Bay a year before. On Jan. 27, the dam broke: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg reversed his previous position and said he opposed a trial in Manhattan because it could cost...
...body Emeril experience, so he got off his couch in Los Angeles and enrolled in the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y. He worked his way up to chef de cuisine at Los Angeles' Beverly Hilton and got fired as chef at Rocksugar, the Cheesecake Factory's attempt at Asian street food, before he found his calling in a kitchen on wheels.(See pictures of food truck meals...
...electoral mandate, or the manpower, to remove them, because there's a broad consensus among Israelis that at least the Old City should remain in their hands. And there are Israelis now so deeply settled in the middle of Arab neighborhoods, sometimes sharing the same building, that any attempt to draw boundaries in the city would likely present a constant source of tension, and even violence. "It's human nature to think that all problems can be solved, but maybe Jerusalem cannot be solved," says Berkowitz...
...countrymen. Although a Shi'ite, he alienated many among the majority sect by espousing a secular view of Iraq. Many Iraqis were suspicious of his ties to Saddam Hussein's Baath Party, even though Allawi had left the party in 1975 and had survived an assassination attempt ordered by the dictator. (See what Allawi was like...