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Decades ago, when I was a Patrolman in Baltimore, cops joked among themselves that being named Police Officer of the Year was the kiss of death, because many who received that dubious honor were in some kind of serious trouble within the year.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. This week an openly gay Broward County, Florida Sheriff's Deputy, Jonathan Bleiweiss, 29, of Fort Lauderdale, recently named employee of the year, was arrested for coercing sex from vulnerable illegal aliens.

And a woman who received the Connecticut Nursing Association's "Nurse of the Year," award in 2008 is taking the scenario to a whole new level. Betty Lichtenstein, 56, of Norwalk is not a nurse, though she did pretend to be one in a doctor's office, and there is no Connecticut Nursing Association. That didn't keep Betty from going to the trouble and $2,000 expense of creating the one member Conneticut Nursing Association and throwing herself an award banquet. She awaits her day in court.

I think Vladimir Putin has been watching too many Yul Brynner movies.

Science has once again discovered something the Catholic Church has known and taught about people for centuries: temptation is harder to resist than you think. And what does the scientist recommend to resist temptation? "The bottom line," says Loran Nordgren, senior lecturer of management and organizations at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, in Illinois: "Avoid situations where such weaknesses thrive, and remember you're not that invincible."

He could have just read the Baltimore Catechism, used in Catholic grade schools in the USA before the Second Vatican Council in the early 1960s.

Question 207: What do you mean by the near occasions of sin?
Answer: By the near occasions of sin I mean all the persons, places, and things that may easily lead us into sin.

Question 772: Why are we bound to avoid occasions of sin?

A. We are bound to avoid occasions of sin because Our Lord has said: "He who loves the danger will perish in it"; and as we are bound to avoid the loss of our souls, so we are bound to avoid the danger of their loss. The occasion is the cause of sin, and you cannot take away the evil without removing its cause.

Another strange tale from the chronicles of American love. Mr. Belliveau apparently had too much time and too many women on his hands. His money would have been better spent on a pair of glasses. Three paramours and his wife lured him to a motel, where he was tied up, punched out and super glued on "other parts of his body," a euphemism heretofore unknown for the distinctive male appendage. The good news for Mr. Belliveau is that his lovers did not attend the Lorena Bobbit finishing school. We are left to wonder if any or all of the three lovers have husbands, or if they had previously made good their escapes.

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