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...that's a real shame. Because there's nothing Amtrak needs more than a good swift kick in the corporate butt. An unprecedented commuter crisis? Fantastic: the news media will be crawling all over that story, and Amtrak will have nowhere to go. Americans will finally get the message: yes, folks, this is your national rail system, incapable of maintaining train service even on one of its only profitable routes. Isn't it pathetic? Aren't you proud...
Read this way, the network whodunit is like the mainstream post-9/11 superego, telling us that the system may make mistakes but it works. Evil is knowable, crime solvable, justice swift and attainable. The Wire and The Shield arrive like an unconscious (and just as American) response: It's O.K. to doubt, to question, to acknowledge the bad among the good. Decades of cop shows have schooled us on our Miranda rights, chief among them the right to remain silent. Cheers to these cable cops for exercising their right to make some noise...
...next week. "No one knows exactly what they will do," said a source. "But they will approve some form of zero-tolerance policy." After years in which some dioceses quietly reassigned troubled clerics or settled disputes out of court, the approach is designed to encourage local bishops to take swift action. The new policy will affirm the power of all bishops to remove priests from public ministry and bar them from church offices--or defrock them altogether. The bishops are also mulling the creation of lay review boards to assess allegations of abuse and give bishops advice about matching punishments...
Whitehead is modest about his swift rise into the investment banking stratosphere, saying he would not have had the same success in today’s business world...
...Bush demanded that Pakistan crack down on Islamic militants slipping across the Line of Control dividing Kashmir. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is to visit the region this week in an effort to ease the crisis, but Indian Defense Minister George Fernandes said there was little hope for a swift resolution. Meanwhile, the U.S., Britain and other countries told their nationals to leave India, adding to similar advice on Pakistan. MARS A Martian Odyssey, And a Sea of Ice Where did all the water on Mars go when the once warm and wet planet became cold and dry? After studying data...