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...tech industry that hasn't rebounded this summer: satellites. In July Boeing booked a $1.1 billion charge against earnings for its scandal-marred military business, and former stalwart Loral Space & Communications filed for bankruptcy. Then in August a launch disaster in Brazil killed 21 technicians and jeopardized that country's program. "Unquestionably, the commercial-satellite market is depressed right now," says Chris Mecray, an analyst at Deutsche Bank. From 1996 to 1998, satellite sales grew 49.4%, but they have shrunk 2.4% in the past four years. Worse, hurt by the telecom bust and tough export rules, U.S. market share...
...this point, necessity seems to make better arguments for change than ideology can. In the 1950s there was one priest for every 650 American Catholics. By 2005, according to one survey, there could be one priest for every 2,200. Many American priests are overworked, demoralized by loneliness and scandal, underrespected. According to Gibson's statistics, more than 3,000 (out of 19,000) U.S. parishes are without a resident pastor, and about 2,400 are forced to share a pastor. In the meantime, the exodus from nunneries has been spectacular...
Barry Sussman, the former special editor for The Washington Post’s daily coverage of the Watergate scandal will lead the foundation’s “Watchdog Project,” spearhaeading the creation of a website to encourage watchdog journalism around the world...
Soon afterward, he was named special Watergate editor, keeping tabs on the growing scandal which eventually won the Post a Pulitzer Prize...
Sussman went on to write The Great Coverup: Nixon and the Scandal of Watergate and founded the Washington Post poll and the Washington Post/ABC News poll. He also wrote What Americans Really Think, published in 1988, and Maverick, A Life in Politics, published...