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...government's legal ability to reunite the boy with his father at this stage, but it has certainly been a major morale booster for the protesters outside Lazaro Gonzalez's home, and that's likely to create a bumpy ride for federal marshals or INS officials sent in to collect Elian...
...Miguel Gonzalez having agreed to remain in the U.S. pending the outcome of the appeal, pressure will now mount on Reno to bring that to fruition. But the Miami relatives have insisted that won't happen unless Reno sends federal marshals through the throng around Lazaro's house to collect the boy. Reno has faced mounting criticism inside the Justice Department for the lack of follow-through on her threats to enforce the law. "Many officials at the Justice Department and FBI believe she's done infinitely more harm than good by her personal intervention in the case," says TIME...
...miscarriage of justice, so they're attacking from two fronts at once." It's hard to imagine what the Diallos must think of this distinctly American path to justice: Their son's killers were acquitted, a federal case remains in the balance - yet the Diallos stand to possibly collect a considerable fortune from a police department that stridently maintains its innocence...
Though it took seven years to collect their permission, Helfrich says only 10% of the women refused (and the one he couldn't track down he threw in anyway). "I'd call and say I was doing a valentine to a bygone era, a book about romance in the '70s," he said. He promised not to use their real names, which seemed reassuring despite the fact that everyone would see them naked. If ever there was a damning study of long-term drug effects, this...
...collapse of these new-economy stocks is both a predictable and rational phase of economic development--though it may not feel so rational if you've been burned by them. Launching a dotcom company in recent years has been a bit like getting a license to collect money. Venture capitalists showered you with cash, and Wall Street snapped up your stock at five or 10 times the offering price--sometimes all in the same day--in the hope that you would soon become the next Intel or Microsoft. That money was a magnet for executives of boring old-economy companies...