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...granddaughter, who is need of a donor. Inselman has sent letters to a local judge explaining all this, but the judge has thus far refused to release the information, offering a polite recitation of the law. Other judges across the U.S. routinely overlook the law in such cases. Adoptees cite this capriciousness as a reason for opening all records...
...found not only in a letter De Vere wrote to his father-in-law in 1584 but also in "Sonnet 121." In The Merry Wives of Windsor, a Falstaff speech refers to a "weaver's beam," two words highlighted in the Bible (II Samuel 21: 19). Oxfordians can cite scores of other examples linking De Vere's Bible to Shakespeare's texts...
...Diesel jeans. Paying off the credit card bill, however, is another story. Diesel's dream denim, which rings up at an outrageous $150 a pair, has quickly become a status symbol among Harvard's label-conscious thanks to the recently opened boutique on JFK Street. Feigning practicality, some buyers cite the jeans' just-right fit and trick male, female and unisex models...
...past year several small Harvard Square businesses like Grolier have left the Square for more fruitful markets in nearby neighborhoods. They cite the increasingly homogenized customer base, inconvenient and crowded location and comparatively high rents as reasons for seeking new homes. As the Square loses its diversity of stores, the people and essence of the neighborhood are changing...
...posed by some two dozen other nations--from China to Iran--operating more than 100 diesel-electric subs. Vessels of this type are quiet underwater, but their need to recharge their batteries forces them to surface every day or so, when they become sitting ducks. Nonetheless, Navy planners repeatedly cite the possibility that Iran's three Russian-made Kilo subs could bottle up the mouth of the Persian Gulf in a time of crisis, picking off thin-skinned oil tankers like marksmen at a state fair. But few believe that even this scary scenario would be much more than...