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...fondling him for three years during Bible study at St. Edward Church. The charge made news: the vastly popular Blackwell was the first African American to serve as pastor of a Catholic church in Baltimore, tending a thriving, mostly black congregation at St. Edward. The boy passed two police lie-detector tests, but lacking a witness or physical evidence, the state dropped the case. And the church backed its priest, at least in public. Privately, according to Margaret Burns, a spokeswoman for the Maryland state's attorney, in 1993 "the archdiocese acknowledged that there was reason to believe that sexual...
...talks designed to open up global trade in agriculture and textiles. Rich countries assured poor countries, who felt they had been ripped off under the previous Uruguay trade round that finished in 1994, that their concerns were finally being addressed. Bush's handout two weeks ago makes a lie of America's commitment to those talks and his personal devotion to free trade. Or as Hannah puts it, "Getting money from the government is cheating...
...last dance: as long as he keeps tossing out things, stringing us along, he's useful, privileged, treated with respect by his interrogators, like a Cold War era captured agent. Once that's no longer true, his life will turn very, very nasty. Zubaydah has every reason to lie, to throw his captors off the trail, to sow fear and doubt, to poke the U.S. so that his al-Qaeda fellows can observe how we react. Should we play along? Does passing along his uncorraborated warnings do more harm than good...
Although Summers misspoke when he said that Michigan’s admissions process was the same as Harvard’s, his was at most a white lie. Truth be told, Harvard’s method is only a more sophisticated, less numerical version of Michigan’s. They may appear different, but to paraphrase Brennan, just because one system adds points to admit disadvantaged minority applicants and the other adds a non-numerical preference, does not make one constitutional and the other...
...should archaeologists let the sleeping Buddha lie? That question is vexing both Afghan and foreign experts who treat the existence of this Buddha with the kind of fretful confidentiality usually associated with state nuclear secrets. Some archaeologists worry that an excavated statue could become a target of a restored Taliban-like regime. Says Paul Bucherer-Dietschi of the Afghan Museum in Exile, near Basel: "There's no way we could possibly protect the site." Bucherer-Dietschi worries about looters as well. At the bidding of Pakistani antiquities smugglers, he says, the Taliban trucked off chunks of the two standing Buddhas...