His remarks amounted to just a few sentences near the tail end of a radio interview, and near the end of his nine-year tenure as the Roman Catholic archbishop of New York. But ever since Cardinal Edward M. Egan made some brief comments this month about the centuries-old requirement that priests be celibate, Catholic scholars, pundits and clerics have been parsing what he meant and what it could mean for the church. Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire

In a March 10 interview on the Albany radio

Now that California has finally passed a budget and can get back to work, a state lawmaker and three middle-school administrators have turned their attention to dealing, in different ways, with the state’s booming, illegal trade in marijuana.

As The Los Angeles Times reports today, three of the people in charge of the George K. Porter Middle School in the city’s Granada Hills district were removed from their posts this week after they conducted a private “sting” operation, in which they