Show A2 —The Herald Journal Logan Utah Monday March 4 2002 rr Motion' v&mIn briof n Rachel Zoll Religion Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The expected (ejection by a Senate committee of one of President Bush’s picks for ieUS Court of Appeals would kill the nomination Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle said Sunday Bush wants to elevate US District Judge Charles Pickering of Mississippi to the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans But Democrats are expected to defeat the nomination 10-- 9 on a party-lin- e vote this week in the Senate Judiciary Committee Daschle noted that Democrats and Republicans previously had agreed that that only Supreme Court nominees who failed in the committee could be voted on by the full Senate — “and I’m willing to maintain that commitCharles ment for whatever length of time I’m majority Pickering leader’’ he said on "Fox News Sunday’’ Pickering a former Mississippi prosecutor and lawmaker easily won Senate confirmation in 1990 for a lifetime appointment as a US District Court judge but has faced criticism from women's civil rights and liberal groups Sexual misconduct by Roman Catholic priests has cost the church in lost faith and broken lives Yet the damage from the scandals has been financial as well as spiri- tual Dioceses have sold land and buildings to pay off multimil-lion-doll- ar settlements Some have borrowed heavily from D-S- D other dioceses or their own parishes Insurers have limited coverage while bishops have quietly paid thousands of dol-- ‘ lars in therapy costs for abusive priests and their victims' This nationwide financial toll of the wrongdoing is not known since most settlements are confidential Estimates of payouts to victims range from $300 million up to $1 billion Whatever the number the experiences of individual dioceses indicate the impact has been significant — and could be similar in theArchdiocese Some want change on Tenn quarter WASHINGTON (SHNS) — Musicians and perfectionists have been studying closely the new Tennessee quarter dollars and believe they have caught Uncle Sam making two boo-bo- t os Under great Magnification this two-b- it scandal remains tiny but still mysterious It is clear that the coin’s guitar has six tuning pegs but only five strings The trumpet’s three valves that alter its pitch are oddly placed for what could be a trumpet — - if such a thing exists US Mint spokesman Matt Kilboume was asked if adyone would be fired over these apparent mistakes Will they pull the plug for a while on the machines giant quarter-makin- g to fix the Tennessee design for the rest of its production schedule? 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