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...could have afforded it. The bankruptcy proceedings are little more than another step in the church’s denial of the abuse scandal as a whole; every day the bankruptcy charade is nurtured by Law, those who supply the church’s assets and support base will be increasingly alienated...
...unassuming demeanor lies an athletic powerhouse. “She is one of the most talented softball players in Harvard history,” says head coach Jenny Allard. Whitton is the tri-captain of the Harvard varsity softball team for the second year running. She pitches, plays first base and outfield, and has made First Team All-Ivy for the past three years in a row—each year for a different position. She was named Ivy Player of the Year last year and led the nation in RBIs per game. She also ranked sixth in batting average...
...Whitton doesn’t take herself all that seriously. She offers a story from a game against Drexel last year. She was on second base when the next batter hit a long fly ball to centerfield, which Whitton judged to be at least a double. She took off running, but it wasn’t until she had rounded third that she realized her coach was frantically signaling—the ball had been caught by the Drexel centerfielder. Whitton says she used her Harvard logical reasoning skills to get back to second base: “The shortest...
...environment ministers decided that genetically modified food, which composes a large percentage of food grown in the U.S., may be imported if strictly labeled. Although Europeans claim the foot-dragging is due to safety concerns with genetically modified food, the stance in fact stems from two more base motivations. First, Europe is more interested in keeping its food market closed to competition than helping starving Africans. Second, Europeans have not completely kicked their obsession with their own “purity,” and the American-led effort to mongrelize their food has resonated with the continent?...
...base of the mountains, Highway 101 snakes around the Olympic peninsula following a silent, morose track through endless clear cuts. Coarse and hideous, with brush piled in heaps, the naked scars on the mountains emanate destruction and death. Here, the logging companies clear cut the land entirely, and then commence ‘sustainable logging practices,’ which entail replanting the tracts in rows of trees that grow until they are large enough to be cut again...