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...father - who wants him back in Cuba - is speaking under duress," says TIME's Miami bureau chief Tim Padgett. "But many legal experts doubt whether a federal judge will buy that argument." Elsewhere, congressional supporters of the Cuban-American leadership are hoping that granting Elian immediate citizenship may help prevent his return, while Havana is considering sending the boy's grandmothers to fetch him, or even issuing his father a diplomatic passport to immunize him from court and congressional subpoenae if he traveled to Miami himself...
...friends by going on Nightline to tell of his desire to take a rifle to those who were blocking his son's return) the case is far from a resolution, especially now that House Republican Whip Tom DeLay has vowed to introduce legislation granting the six-year-old U.S. citizenship...
...Einstein staged his first great rebellion. Left behind in Munich when his family relocated to northern Italy after another of his father's business failures, he quit his prep school because of its militaristic bent, renounced his German citizenship and eventually entered the famed Zurich Polytechnic, Switzerland's M.I.T. There he fell in love with a classmate, a Serbian physics student named Mileva Maric. Afflicted with a limp and three years his senior, she was nonetheless a soul mate. He rhapsodized about physics and music with her, called her his Dolly and fathered her illegitimate child--a sickly girl...
When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, Einstein left the country and renounced his German citizenship. He spent the last 22 years of his life at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. The Nazis launched a campaign against "Jewish science" and the many German scientists who were Jews (their exodus is part of the reason Germany was not able to build an atom bomb). Einstein and relativity were principal targets for this campaign. When told of publication of the book One Hundred Authors Against Einstein, he replied, Why 100? If I were wrong, one would...
...Bush, the other candidates trying to break up the happy couple with some sharp jabs which had little weight upon impact. McCain and Bush were so nice to each other you had to wonder whether they were running for the Republican presidential nomination or trying to get their "citizenship in the nation" boy-scout badge...