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...they were omnipresent, shouldn't they have been able to shield the boys from abusive priests? As I got older, I heard whisperings: Father Jim hanging out too long in the locker room; altar boys joking about changing quickly to avoid being cornered by the pastor for a heart-to-heart talk. Didn't the sisters hear the same thing...
...know, Father Jim never did more than snap towels with the guys. But if he had, there were lots of reasons why the nuns would have been clueless or in denial. Says Sister Joan Chittister, 50 years a Benedictine nun and the author of more than a dozen books: "Since all these charges have come out, we look at one another and ask, 'Did you know? How could we have missed this?'" Sister Joan remembers scolding more than one youngster for being late to class, never thinking it could be anything more than dawdling: "I remember saying, 'Mass has been...
Well, publishers and booksellers still have hungry mouths to feed. In the book industry, where profits are narrow, Oprah's endorsement of any title meant a minimum of 500,000 additional sales, says Jim Milliot, the business editor at Publishers Weekly. For the publisher, that translates to at least an additional $5 million in revenue. Among ambitious writers she produced an Oprah effect. They knew that editors were always happy to be offered stories they knew Oprah liked, the ones centered on family drama or personal struggle by characters who are scarred but who endure. Oprah, with her largely female...
...reference to the unfulfilled promise to freed slaves for “40 acres and a mule”) at the beginning of each Congressional term since 1989. Each time, the legislation has died. The goal for proponents of black reparations is a national apology for slavery, Jim Crow and institutional discrimination, along with a national form of compensation. Exacting reparations through corporate litigation is not the goal itself, but simply a means to further the debate that has continually been stalled in America’s political arena...
buck is a frank and serious attempt to bring to the forefront issues which should be engaged in a theatrical setting. It is unfortunate that the piece is ultimately blemished by the irony that, in this portrait of the Jim Crow South, while the lack of female perspective is suggested as problematic, the play’s structure does not provide an adequate forum for such a perspective to be communicated...