Yesterday’s Kentucky Post carries an article titled Covington Diocese Sex Abuse Settlement– 1 Year Later . While court records remain sealed, the article reports on a few of the victims who received payment form the 2009 settlement by the Diocese
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250 Receive Payments In Covington Diocese Settlement
If there were a World Cup for enterprise, Scotland would not just have failed to make the finals — we would not even have made the qualifiers. These are the dismal findings I have drawn from the latest edition of the authoritative review of Scotland’s entrepreneurial activity — the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Scotland.
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Scotland must reject dependency culture
When my listeners’ eyes glaze over, I start the quiz section of my open-air soap box sessions in Blackburn town centre. First prize, two tickets to Burnley Reserves, second prize four tickets. This usually raises a laugh; and winning is so unattractive that I’ve yet to pay up.
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There’s no case for cutting the number of MPs
It was said of Ed Sullivan, the Nixon lookalike who compered the variety shows that brought Elvis Presley and the Beatles into America’s living rooms, that he could light up a room just by leaving it. Given the dazzling wattage of Simon Cowell’s smile, this is a joke that does not quite work against Sullivan’s modern-day British equivalent.
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Simon Cowell’s got talent. He deserves his Bafta
Last week, who made this comment on modern culture? “The conspicuous consumption of exchanging sex for money is now in our faces.
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Was Mary Whitehouse right all along?
Now, I rather approve of Michael Gove, erstwhile pillar of this newspaper. He used to supervise this very page, and many is the stimulating and amiably disputatious phone call we have enjoyed. His progress into the Cabinet as Education Secretary has been fascinating to observe, as it always is when colleagues cross the ditch dividing comment from administration.
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Listen Govey, not all sink schools are failing
Paul Harvey I spent a lot of time growing up waiting in the hospital waiting room. This wasn’t because I was ever ill when younger, or because I sustained any injuries more grievous than spraining my ankle about 10,000 times playing basketball for the last 40 years. Rather, my father, a family physician in a small town and one of just two doctors for one entire county in the Oklahoma Panhandle, got called in a lot — and if my mother wasn’t around, the hospital waiting room was my babysitter
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Cancer Cannot Kill Doggerel
Paul Harvey We’re a bit tardy in taking note of this, but for those who haven’t been following, CNN is the latest entrant into the religious blogosphere, with CNN Belief Blog (now added to our blog sideroll under “BlogFavs”). Noted religious historian Stephen Prothero is one of the contributors.
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Belief Blogging, Protestant Liberalism, and Fundamentalist Originalism
Amritsar, Jun 6 (PTI) Akal Takht, the highest temporal seat of the Sikhs, today observed the 26th anniversary of Operation Blue Star at the Golden Temple here as genocide day, saying the wounds inflicted on the community’s psyche by the offensive were yet to heal. “The Sikh community all over the world still feels the unhealed wounds of Operation Blue Star, Akal Takht Jathedar Gyani Gurbachan Singh said addressing a function held by the SGPC to mark the occasion at the Temple where the operation was carried out by the Indian army in 1984 to flush out pro-Khalistan militants. DETAILED NEWS CAN BE VIEWED FROM THE LINK IN HEADLINE ABOVE
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26th anniversary of Operation Blue Star observed
Peace FM Online and Courthouse News Service report that a lawsuit was filed last Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court by the Western Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church of America against the J. Paul Getty Museum. The suit seeks return of seven illustrated pages, known as the Canon Table, taken from an illuminated Armenian Bible created by Toros Roslin for Constantine I in 1256.
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Armenian Church Sues Getty Museum For Return of Bible Pages