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...theory, yes, using Turkey as a staging ground or employing aircraft carriers and long-range bombers alone. But so far, Istanbul is uncommitted, and keeping large numbers of planes in the air for long distances or landing them on ships puts them at risks that the Pentagon would rather avoid. President Bush must be hoping the Crown Prince enjoyed that pickup ride...
...meted out to "a priest who has become notorious and is guilty of the serial, predatory, sexual abuse of minors." Excuse me? Why on earth is the "notoriety" of a child abuser in any way relevant to punishment for his crime (except as an excuse for the church to avoid sifting through past allegations that remain unpublicized)? Then there were these loopholes: the abuse also had to be "serial" and "predatory." Occasional or one-off child-abuse violations could perhaps be forgiven. And even serial abuse might be overlooked if it had not been "predatory." A simple question...
...frank discussion of sexual morality, celibacy, women priests or homosexuality, it's not likely to happen anytime soon. The usual diversions designed to avoid these subjects were thrown about with abandon. This is a purely American problem, some church spokesmen argued, as if scandals weren't exploding elsewhere: an ABC News report charged the Vatican itself with covering up abuse claims against a priest previously praised by the Pope. Then there was the scapegoating of gays. Equating homosexuality with child abuse is one of the oldest slanders there is--but this church didn't hesitate to invoke it to deflect...
...whole truth about his role in what a blue ribbon commission recently called "possibly the worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history." Hanssen's lawyer, Plato Cacheris, insists his client has done his best to cooperate fully, as he pledged when he struck a plea bargain last July to avoid the death penalty. Still, some FBI officials think serious inconsistencies remain in his account of 21 years as a double agent for Soviet intelligence, during which he is estimated to have betrayed 50 U.S. spies and potential recruits. (It didn't help that Hanssen lost his temper with a skeptical bureau...
...late to avoid serious harm to Earth’s life support system. Greenhouse gas concentrations have increased in the atmosphere as a result of the activities of each and everyone of us. Each of us can contribute to a slowing and lessening of the impact of global climate change...