BalletMet student among best in world The Columbus Dispatch | A 15-year-old student at the BalletMet Dance Academy was one of seven top prizewinners at Switzerland's recent Prix de Lausanne, an international competition for gifted young dancers. | Christopher Evans and the six other top finishers -- all ages ...
Jesuit teachers at top German school admit sexually abusing boys The Times | A Jesuit teacher confessed yesterday to sexually abusing boys at a top German school, further engulfing the country's Roman Catholic Church in a scandal over the mistreatment of dozens of pupils in its care. | Almost 30 alleged victims have come fo...
New Zealand student sells virginity for £20,000 on the web The Daily Mail | A teenage New Zealand student has accepted a stranger's offer of £20,000 after putting her virginity up for auction on the web` | The 19-year-old woman, calling herself Unigirl, says on a website that she was fully aware of the possible consequence...
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Burger King 2Q profit up 13 percent, revenue rises The Examiner Comments NEW YORK (Map, News) - It was a move criticized by its franchisees, but Burger King Corp. said its $1 double cheeseburger promotion worked by luring in cost-conscious dine...
Sarkozy and Merkel brush off Obama snub The News & Observer | PARIS -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel brushed off President Barack Obama's decision not to attend an annual summit with European leaders w...
Sarkozy and Merkel brush off Obama snub The Press Democrat | A U.S. State Department deputy briefing reporters made the announcement Monday that Obama would miss the EU-U.S. summit in May that will take place in Spain, which now holds the ...
More sex abuse cases reported at German school The Press Democrat | That is much higher than the seven sexual abuse cases by the two priests in the 1970s and 1980s that Berlin's private Catholic Canisius Kolleg had acknowledged last month. | Father Stefan Dartmann, the head of the Jesuit order of Germany, also said...
More sex abuse cases reported at German school Houston Chronicle | BERLIN - At least 20 students were sexually abused by two Jesuit priests who taught them at one of Germany's most prestigious high schools, its director said Monday. | That is much higher than the seven sexual abuse cases by the two priests in the ...
New abuse cases surface at German Catholic school Syracuse | (AP) - BERLIN - The director of a prestigious Catholic high school in Germany says the number of students who have reported past sexual abuse by their teachers, two Jesuit fathers, has risen to 20. | Father Klaus Mertes said Monday that after he se...
Few Signs of Turnabout in Germany The New York Times | BERLIN - About 100 days ago, Angela Merkel started a second term as chancellor, armed with a new center-right government coalition and an admonition for Germany. "This country has to finally grasp the full dimensions" of the unique economic crisis afflicting it, she said. | The chancellor did not directly acknowledge that Germany was among the wo...
Wanted - more men in the classroom The Gleaner | That the male students in high school are not performing as well as their female counterparts is a fact. That is not debatable. This we must discuss and carry on the discussion until we find a solution. I do not believe the slower development of male students affect their performance significantly. If this were so, the curriculum used in boys' sc...
