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Jerry Sandusky more than a decade ago.
• The allegations are similar to those made against a top Philadelphia archdiocese official who was convicted on child endangerment charges last month.
• Duquesne University law professor Wes Oliver said former FBI Director Louis Freeh's investigative report on the Penn State scandal reads like a prosecution case for a child endangerment charge against Paterno, then-President Graham Spanier, athletic director Tim Curley and now-retired vice president Gary Schultz.
• Oliver noted that Monsignor William Lynn was convicted for allowing a suspected pedophile priest to be around children. Prosecutors said Lynn helped the Philadelphia archdiocese keep predators in ministry and the public in the dark.
• "If you look at what happened here, it's very clear that they were aware that they had a pedophile on their campus," Oliver said.
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• JERUSALEM (AP) -- Nine months after he was freed from Hamas captivity in a lopsided prisoner swap, Gilad Schalit is emerging from the shadows -- showing up at parties, sporting events and even writing a newspaper column.
• Even so, the former Israeli soldier remains an enigma. He has refrained from giving interviews and has shared few details about his 5 1/2 years of captivity in a Gaza basement. But he hasn't vanished from sight -- quite the opposite.
• The slender 25-year-old has morphed into a celebrity from an awkward, anony

mous teenager whose plight inspired a nationwide campaign. While he still enjoys widespread public support, some Israelis are beginning to question whether his tragic ordeal has been converted into undue hero status.
• Palestinian militants abducted a wounded Schalit from his tank in June 2006 in a brazen cross-border infiltration from Gaza. After years of failed negotiations and mounting public pressure, Israel agreed to free more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners, including hundreds of convicted killers, in exchange for his freedom. Schalit was joyously welcomed home, but the government also faced criticism for agreeing to such a one-sided swap.
• The nation embraced Schalit as a symbol largely because most Israelis his age -- men and women -- do compulsory military service. Parents of present, future and past soldiers -- and that is just about everyone in Israel -- empathized with the Schalit family, picturing their own sons in captivity.
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