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...received a degree in Biblical studies there and enrolled in the three-year seminary program. But only one semester short of graduation, a classmate turned him in for what Houston will only describe as a “homosexual activity” that took place two years before. “There are some things that I don’t tell people even in my ministry,” he explains...
...country calls us, especially as Marines, we’re ready,” says Marren, who spent 20 years in the military police—including a three-year stint at the Pentagon’s Navy annex where he overlooked the part of the building destroyed in last week’s attack...
...financial institutions. To help ease the burden of the government's debt, estimated to be as high as $5.5 trillion by some economists, he has proposed cutting the budget 10% and shifting spending from public-works projects to education, job training and environmental cleanup. Koizumi has set a three-year target for settling the balance sheets of Japan's heavily indebted banks. He has appointed a free-wheeling Cabinet that is younger, more female and includes more outsiders than any seen before. Most stunning of all, Koizumi has made a promise that he will have no trouble keeping: there...
...unremitting bad news rattled Koizumi into tracking back, ever so slightly, from his promises of speedy, painful reform. That pledge he made in July to limit government borrowing this year to $8.25 billion? Now he says that's just a target, not written in stone. Those big-spending supplementary budgets he derided in his stump speeches? Koizumi now thinks one will be necessary this year, after all. The three-year deadline for cleaning up banks' bad loans? Hmm, that might actually take longer. This doesn't add up to a major policy retreat, but Koizumi's waffling amid looming economic...
Monday, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania unveiled the grim results of a three-year study of children under 18 living in the U.S. They found that roughly 400,000 children, or one in 100, are victims of commercial sexual exploitation...