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...Absent a happy ending in the Gonzalez family feud, the U.S. government has indicated it will apply the law, which recognizes Juan Miguel as Elian's guardian. The questions in the coming days, then, are whether and how the Miami family plans to hand Elian over to his father, and how the INS plans to ensure that they do so. And, of course, how the hundreds of demonstrators who've vowed to stop the boy from leaving Lazaro's house might react. Then there's the drama of Elian's own reunion with a father he's known only...
...that the absent parents of the child who shot Kayla are irrelevant and gun legislation is relevant? Why not require parenting classes and forbid procreation without a background check, waiting period and license? This legislation, as absurd as it sounds, would have been more beneficial to Kayla. JOSEPH L. GREENE Canyon Country, Calif...
...What has led to this self-examination? John Paul II appears to be trying to reconfigure the church's thinking to confront a global reality absent from its core thinking at the start of the last millennium: That Catholicism will, for the foreseeable future, remain one faith among many, Christian and non-Christian, with which it must coexist. In many ways, it's an intensely personal mission of a pontiff nearing the end of his life as his church celebrates its Jubilee. "The pope has long promised to lead the church in coming to terms with some of its sins...
...concern] is over clinical trials, and that's something that's essentially absent at FAS," Feldman says. "Second, the size of the medical school makes it necessary to try to codify the conflict-of-interest policy...
While occupying the chair, Burton stood alone at the podium, as council Secretary Jean E. Huang '03 and Parliamentarian Alexander A. Boni-Saenz '01were absent from the meeting...