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Elian Gonzalez's Miami relatives have - surprise, surprise - chosen the slow road for their appeal to keep the boy in the U.S., and that's just fine with Fidel Castro. Lawyers acting for great-uncle Lazaro Gonzalez Wednesday asked the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta to review their decision upholding the Immigration and Naturalization Service's ruling that the six-year-old couldn't apply for asylum in the U.S. against the wishes of his father. That request is likely to be a prelude to the eventual Supreme Court appeal that the Miami relatives have long vowed they...
...usually end up clogging the whole neighborhood with their debris. In the courts, while some pro se filers are very effective, many more wreak havoc and delay. "They don't know how to get the forms. They don't know how to fill them out," says Lisa Kahn, a circuit-court judge in Viera, Fla. Some pro se litigants drag out hearings to punish their spouse. They call women judges by their first name. They turn in forms blotched with suspicious stains. And God help them if their opponent has a lawyer who knows how to use the rules...
...Ventura County, Calif., started sending a Winnebago through rural towns, giving out forms and guidance. The New Britain, Conn., superior court offers free use of phones, computers and a "do-it-yourself divorce guide" translated into Spanish. Florida has a pro se help desk in each of its 20 circuit courts. Two weeks ago, 130 judges, court administrators and lawyers met in Orlando to discuss what else they could do to help pro se litigants--without encouraging more people to join them...
...kids. This year's champ, GEORGE ABRAHAM THAMPY, 12, and the top two runners-up take their lessons at home, where subjects like Latin, long dormant in public schools, fill the time most kids squander socializing. But George is a standout even in the rarefied air of the bee circuit. In two previous attempts, he tied for fourth and third places in the spelling contest, and two weeks ago, he came in second in the National Geography Bee. With the spelling title--which George clinched with the word demarche--comes a check for $10,000, a trophy...
...Dartmouth, Vermont and New Hampshire (UNH), regularly the top three teams in the EISA carnival circuit, all have strong local skiing and a rigorous practice schedule...