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...upcoming decision. Presidents from Lowell to Pusey to Bok radically shaped the University and played major roles on the national stage. President Leverett freed Harvard from stifling Puritan control. President Eliot transformed the University from a small college to a modern institution and presided over Radcliffe's birth. President Lowell redesigned the liberal undergraduate curriculum and started the House system. President Conant introduced general education curriculum and initiated coeducation with Radcliffe. Beginning with Pusey, Presidents have improved University finances through fundraising and have shaped the College in important ways. Bok began the Core Program and Rudenstine has overseen the transformation...
Tranda Wecker, 28, has trouble making up her mind. She is a hotel receptionist from St. Louis, Mo., who gave birth last June to twins, to whom she gave the names Kiara and Keyara, after a character in Disney's Lion King II. At first she planned to raise them along with her three other children but faltered under the pressure of her job and divorce from the twins' father. She also had a new boyfriend. "Who was going to want a woman with five kids?" she said to the British tabloid the Sun, which broke the story. So Wecker...
...Kilshaws in the lobby, shouted that the babies belonged to the Allens--the first the British couple claimed to have heard of the parents they were about to replace. The couples spoke on the phone. "We had sympathy," says Alan Kilshaw, "but it wasn't our fault the birth mother had changed her mind, and it wasn't our fault that California law allowed her 90 days in which...
Then began a weird, seven-day, 1,500-mile car trip to Arkansas, which grants adoptions in as few as 10 days if all the birth and adoptive parents agree. When motel rooms were full, the Kilshaws, Wecker, her daughter Nolle and her twins all slept in a green Dodge Caravan. The babies developed coughs, and one ended up in the hospital, dehydrated. But the adoption was approved in Arkansas. Just after Christmas the Kilshaws brought the babies, renamed Kimberly and Belinda, to their seven-bedroom farmhouse in northern Wales--and decided to tell their tale of Tina Johnson...
...them off to the best start." Their trauma isn't over either. If the Kilshaws' adoption is judged invalid, the children could be returned to their mother, who despite her fickle actions and possible perjury may yet enjoy the law's preference for keeping kids with their birth parents. But what would she do with them next...