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Similarly, the proposal met with mixed reviews during last month’s Faculty discussion. Many faculty members expressed concern that the University recognized students whose grade-point averages were in the “A” range but chose not to write a thesis...
...accusations pile up, the church's relationship with the law is facing revision. To this day, only 19 states require clergy to report suspicions or allegations of sex abuse against minors to civil authorities. While legislators rush to write the church into "mandatory reporter" laws, many bishops say they've already pledged to tell the cops of any new charges. Some dioceses, like those in Boston and Bridgeport, are combing through their secret archives to hand over details of all cases, going back 49 years. But in New York, Cardinal Egan has barely noted the changing weather. He will retain...
...least dry-witted and unsentimental in Morris' typical style. There was the multi-screen device the producers used before the Film Editing Oscar, which actually gave us an idea what film editors do. And there was the inspired idea of having people like David Mamet and Buck Henry write introductions to some of the awards - the fewer clunky jokes misread off the TelePrompTer, the better. (Sorry, Bruce Vilanch, but the statute of limitations on Anna Nicole Smith gags expired about five years...
...novelists stress that there is no real Mrs. X, that the events are exaggerated versions of things that happened to them or people they knew and that they didn't start the book until after they had stopped nannying. Nor did they set out to write a sizzling roman a clef; they were shooting more for Chekhov. "We noticed that in a lot of books in N.Y.U.'s Great Books Program, nannies were mentioned," says McLaughlin. "They were always a peripheral but pivotal figure...
...After that, Doe alleges, O'Connell had the boy, then 15, write a journal explicitly detailing his sexual thoughts and fantasies - all under the guise of "saving" C.C. Doe from his homosexual tendencies. In a phone conversation with O'Connell two weeks ago on March 9, the day after O'Connell resigned as bishop in Palm Beach, Doe says O'Connell told him that those sessions were meant "to help me see that I was not gay, that it was possible for two men to physically touch naked in bed, but that didn't mean you were a homosexual...