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The transcript of the Internet chat between the 52-year-old man and the underage boy reads like something from a police sting operation to catch pedophiles: Man: what you wearing. Boy: t-shirt and shorts. Man: love to slip them off of you. When the man urged the boy to masturbate, the teen replied, "brb (be right back). My mom is yelling. " Minutes later, the boy returned and typed a closing message: "well i better go finish my hw (homework). " The 16-year-old boy who provided the transcript identified the man as Rep. Mark Foley (R., Fla.)

House Speaker Thomas S. Foley (D., Wash.) said yesterday that Jim Wright's combative style of leadership might have contributed as much to his resignation as speaker as the misconduct charges leveled against him by the House ethics committee. In an interview, Foley praised Wright as a man of "courage" and "vision" whose brief tenure as speaker - from January 1987 to last May 31 - produced landmark legislation. But Wright's propensity for stirring "turbulence" and "turmoil" in the House, Foley said, marked a risky style of leadership that offended many members and put Wright too far out in front on many issues.

House Speaker Thomas S. Foley (D., Wash.) said yesterday that he had decided to bring to the House floor a bill that would revamp the unemployment insurance fund. Legislation to overhaul the system has been stalled in a House committee for three years. Earlier this year, Foley had withheld his support for additional jobless benefits. "We still have high unemployment levels, and they may go higher before the recession is over," Foley said during a breakfast meeting. "We just had a decline in the level and extent of unemployment compensation since the end of the '80s, and I think a case can be made for some improvement.

Top-ranked Holy Spirit High and No. 2 Cherry Hill East have followed similar paths in maintaining the top two positions in The Inquirer's South Jersey football ratings. Both teams are led by quarterbacks who are within range of setting a single-season South Jersey passing record. The quarterbacks: Holy Spirit's Al Mallen and Cherry Hill East's Glenn Foley. The record: 24 touchdown passes, a feat accomplished last season by Delran's Tony Sacca, now a Penn State freshman.

As if quarterbacking a seven-point underdog with a perceived lame-duck coach wasn't handicap enough, the New York Jets' Glenn Foley is paying to have a few dozen lucky Eagles fans attend tomorrow's game in the Meadowlands. Two of them are his parents. Two are his brothers. The rest are people near and dear to him, South Jersey pals who had the gumption to ask him for tickets - he has to buy most of them - without switching their lifelong allegiances for a game. "There's a little conflict there," he said.

A Philadelphia-area congressman said yesterday that his Republican leaders should resign if it turns out they looked the other way. Another canceled a fund-raiser with the House majority leader, while a third returned a contribution check. The Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal appears to have done little damage to the GOP, polls show. But how about a sex scandal - featuring suggestive e-mail and raunchy instant messages from a GOP congressman to teenage male pages? Just hours after Rep. Mark Foley (R., Fla.)

House Speaker Thomas S. Foley said yesterday that the nation lacked enough money to pay for needed education programs, health services and transportation improvements and that it had little hope of raising the money in time to reverse its faltering economic fortunes. In a speech to the National Press Club, Foley (D., Wash.) said the United States could no longer afford the "preponderant cost" of both keeping peace in the world and tending to its domestic needs. He called on Germany, Japan and others to put up a greater share of the burden for keeping order around the globe.

For Glenn Foley, bigger had better be better. Through heavy lifting and hearty eating, Foley has gotten a little bit bigger this year in hopes of quarterbacking the New York Jets for a whole lot longer. Indeed, a more solid, better-sculpted Foley will report for his physical with the rest of the Jets on Wednesday at Hofstra University on Long Island. His first training-camp practice will begin the next day, probably to launch the most pressurized season of his career. That's because Foley, 27, virtually has been named the Jets' starter, though neither he nor Vinny Testaverde, 34, whom the Jets acquired in June, readily accept that notion.

Former state Labor Secretary Thomas P. Foley, whom many Democrats viewed as their party's strongest potential challenger to Gov. Ridge next year because of his ability to raise money from organized labor, said yesterday that he has decided not to run. Foley, a Montgomery County native now living in Hershey, said that while he was confident he could have raised enough money to wage a credible campaign, he decided to abandon the idea because of...

Most people might agree that the initials B.O.E could mean almost anything. But use those initials on a flier that endorses two people for seats on the school board, with the words Waterford Township in front, and residents here could assume that B.O.E. stands for Board of Education. That's the controversy surrounding township Planning Board Chairman James "Jim" Foley, a candidate for the school board. Foley and his running mate James Griffin mass-mailed fliers on Friday, asking residents to vote for them in the April 20 elections.

St. Joseph's University will honor Cardinal John Patrick Foley, an alumnus and former Vatican spokesman who died in December, by renaming its campus center for him. The Campus Commons, a chapel-turned-gathering-place with sofas and flat screens, will be called the Cardinal John Patrick Foley Campus Center. The building, with its vaulted ceilings and high windows, will be a hub for student meetings, performances, guest speakers, and presentations to visiting high school students and parents.

With a Funeral Mass that drew dozens of bishops and cardinals, hundreds of priests, and more than 1,000 lay people, the Archdiocese of Philadelphia said farewell Friday to one of its favorite sons, Cardinal John Patrick Foley. A priest of the archdiocese who served 27 years at the Vatican but remained famously devoted to Philadelphia, Foley died last Sunday at age 76 after a long bout with leukemia and anemia. "Never did he stop talking about and bragging about this Archdiocese of Philadelphia - as much as we begged him to," Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York City said to laughter in his homily.

Beloved in life for his broad smile and gregarious ways, the late Cardinal John P. Foley lay in state Thursday, uncharacteristically solemn, as hundreds of mourners made their way up the aisle to his bier in the chapel of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood. A priest of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia who spent 27 years in Rome as a spokesman for the Vatican and grand master of a papal knighthood, Foley died Sunday at age 76 after a long bout with leukemia and anemia. His open bronze casket, flanked by two seminarians, rested under the vaulted ceiling of the majestic St. Martin of Tours Chapel.

Funeral services for a beloved Roman Catholic Cardinal will be streamed live online by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia beginning at 9:45 a.m. Friday morning. Cardinal John Patrick Foley, 76, died Sunday, December 18, following a battle with leukemia. A longtime priest of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Foley served locally as a parochial vicar, seminary professor, and editor of the archdiocesan newspaper before leaving for Rome in 1984. There he spent nearly 24 years as first president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, and more than three years as Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.

Cardinal John P. Foley, who died Sunday at 76, will be entombed Friday afternoon at the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul following a 2 p.m. Funeral Mass. The liturgy, expected to draw national church leaders along with the prelate's many friends, will follow a daylong viewing Thursday at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood and a shorter viewing Friday at the cathedral. A longtime priest of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Foley served locally as a parochial vicar, seminary professor, and editor of the archdiocesan newspaper before leaving for Rome in 1984.

Cardinal John P. Foley, who died Sunday at 76, will be entombed Friday afternoon at the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul following a 2 p.m. Funeral Mass. The liturgy, expected to draw national church leaders along with the prelate's many friends, will follow a daylong viewing Thursday at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood and a shorter viewing Friday at the cathedral. A longtime priest of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Foley served locally as a parochial vicar, seminary professor, and editor of the archdiocesan newspaper before leaving for Rome in 1984.

WHO WAS THAT guy in the clerical collar inserting himself into a class of serious future journalists at Columbia University? He was not only a priest, he was, at 31, older than most everybody else in the class, and his thinning hair made him look even older. To the younger students looking toward serious careers in the communications field, John Patrick Foley was an anomaly. But he quickly won the respect of even the most cynical with his charm, rich sense of humor and obvious dedication to the subject at hand, and, by extension, everything else he undertook.

Cardinal John P. Foley, a jovial, popular priest of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia who rose from working-class roots to become a "prince of the church" and the Vatican's longtime spokesman on Catholic social teachings, died Sunday. He was 76. Once described as "the nicest guy in the Vatican" by the National Catholic Reporter, Cardinal Foley had suffered in recent years from leukemia. He died at Villa St. Joseph, the archdiocesan home for retired priests in Darby, the town where he was born.