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...danger. With such technology, parents might become "more casual" about moving away from their children, he says. Cynthia Kaplan, a child psychologist at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass., says parenting "is much more about being there," but for parents who can't be there, she suggests that courts appoint therapists to identify visitation methods most helpful to each child. A virtual visit that reassures one child might frustrate another who sees Daddy's face and longs for his good-night...
...Gutmann, an ethicist and former dean of the faculty at Princeton, represented an opportunity to appoint a woman to Harvard's top post for the first time...
...question becomes, are you willing to take a risk to appoint someone younger who is a world-class but maybe not world-known scholar?," MacFarquhar says. "I think Harvard tends to be risk-averse because we are claiming to hire the best...
...toughest tasks of Bush's presidency could be replacing O'Connor--a swing vote on a court that often rules 5 to 4 and the crucial fifth vote upholding Roe v. Wade, since pro-choice groups no longer count on Anthony Kennedy. "Any effort by Bush to appoint a far right-wing Justice to replace O'Connor could make the Ashcroft battle look like a walk in the park," says Elliott Minceburg, legal director of People for the American Way, which is already doing opposition research on possible nominees...
...anyone say with a straight face that Janet Reno was more qualified than Ashcroft to be Attorney General? Or that she is not further to the left than Ashcroft is to the right? If it was all right for Bill Clinton to appoint someone consistent with his views, why can't Bush? DONALD RANFT Hershey...