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Rader's lawyers are trying to find out if, in fact, he did. They have been spending as much as five hours a day, every day, with Rader at the Sedgwick County detention facility, sessions during which their client takes copious notes, complains about sleepless nights and growing depression, and asks repeatedly after his wife and kids, who haven't spoken to him and are believed to be in seclusion together outside Kansas. "He has so far been easy to deal with," public defender Sarah McKinnon tells TIME. "At times he seems weary. But I have seen him smile...
...obliged to register with the courts, although many do in anticipation of disagreements later on. The remaining cases are settled in what insiders call "the shadow of the law" - that is, in the offices of lawyers and mediators, many of whom, based on experience, tend to advise the male client not to waste his money pursuing custody or, indeed, to aim too high in terms of time with his children. In Australia, only 12% of children from broken families live with their dad; for a variety of reasons, about a quarter see their father once a year or less. Commonly...
...well, then, that's fine I'm only seeing my child one day a fortnight,'" says Cumming. "That's not the issue. These terms are great for lawyers in that we understand them, we work with them and we can get our heads around them, but the client doesn't think that way. They're thinking, How long until I see my child and what involvement do I have in my child's day-to-day life...
...lest you think I’m a dreamer, I’d like to point out that my world, or at least some facsimile of it, exists—and you enter it every time you turn on your computer and open your web browser or instant messaging client...
Syria has more immediate worries in Lebanon itself. Outrage at the assassination threatens its long domination there and could even fuel opposition to the Baath regime in Damascus. For nearly three decades Syria has kept a tight grip on its client state, exercised through the 14,000 military and intelligence forces still based around Beirut and the Bekaa Valley. But opposition to the Syrian presence has grown. Damascus made a serious miscalculation last August when it manipulated the constitution. Hariri resigned in protest and quietly backed the U.N. resolution sponsored by France and the U.S. calling on Syria to depart...