AltWeeklies Wire
Two Years After Alleged Hazing Tragedy, Families Have No Closurenew
Two families allege that their daughters drowned on a beach because of a sorority pledge ritual gone awry. They're suing Alpha Kappa Alpha, the nation's oldest black sorority, for $100 million and are calling for an end to hazing.
L.A. Weekly |
Christine Pelisek |
09-29-2004 |
Education
Cardinal Mahony Must Turn Over Documentsnew
A Los Angeles judge has stripped Cardinal Roger Mahony of his holy façade and ordered him to turn over 500 documents relating to priests under investigation for sexual abuse to a criminal grand jury.
L.A. Weekly |
Jeffrey Anderson |
09-20-2004 |
Religion
Tags: religion, priest sex abuse, Deputy District Attorney Bill Hodgman, Deputy District Attorney Jane Robison, District Attorney Steve Cooley, Don Steier, Judge Thomas Nuss, Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton, Mahony’s lawyer Mike Hennigan, Michael Baker, Michael Wempe and Stephen Hernandez, Neville Rucker and Michael Wempe, now a bishop in Santa Barbara, Thomas Curry, Vicar for Clergy Stephen Dyer
How the Kobe Case Ended With a Quack, Not a Roarnew
After Kobe Bryant was accused of rape, I rushed headlong into a ravenous media feeding frenzy that would eventually shake my faith in my profession, as well as in myself. In the end, our glaring search for the truth yielded exactly the opposite.
L.A. Weekly |
Alex Markels |
09-13-2004 |
Crime & Justice
'You Can’t Tell a Hero To Stop Being a Hero'new
Actor and writer Jason Hall, who says he has "no shame about sex," has written a screenplay about a guy much like himself, an antihero, who falls for a girl who plays the game a little better than he.
L.A. Weekly |
Seven McDonald |
09-13-2004 |
Sex
Water Torture: Flooding and the Future of the Worldnew
One billion people, many of them among the world's poorest, live in the potential path of a 100-year flood. Due to the effects of climate change, rising sea levels and unsustainable human activities, that figure is expected to double by midcentury.
L.A. Weekly |
Margaret Wertheim |
09-13-2004 |
Environment
Northeast of Kandahar: 10 Days in Afghanistannew
In remote areas of Afghanistan, the Taliban still rule, and they're working hard to sabotage the country's first democratic elections scheduled for October. Teun Voeten accompanies U.S. troops who, along with the newly formed Afghan National Army, are trying to restore order.
L.A. Weekly |
Teun Voeten |
09-13-2004 |
International
Give Peace Protests a Chancenew
With the Democrats failing to offer a clear anti-war alternative, the peace movement is losing traction in squabbles over direction and doctrine.
L.A. Weekly |
Robert Greene |
09-02-2004 |
Policy Issues
Secrecy Prevails in Catholic Church Sex Abuse Scandalnew
Deferring to Cardinal Roger Mahony's wish for secrecy, the Judicial Council of California and a number of local judges have ordered hundreds of claims of sex abuse into private negotiations, sealed off critical rulings about whether church documents should be confidential and slapped gag orders on victims and their attorneys.
L.A. Weekly |
Jeffrey Anderson |
08-07-2004 |
Sex
Retired Analyst Discloses Motives for War in Iraqnew
Retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski says she observed "a neoconservative coup, a hijacking of the Pentagon" when she worked in the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans during the year leading up to the invasion of Iraq.
L.A. Weekly |
Marc Cooper |
08-07-2004 |
International
