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...lover's child and become a second parent. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court did so last Friday, allowing surgeons Susan Love and Helen Cooksey to adopt the five-year-old girl they have raised since birth. The child was conceived by Love via artificial insemination with sperm from a cousin of Cooksey's. Because of technicalities, the child's own mother had to adopt her for Cooksey to be made co-parent. Cases like this have led judges in several states to suggest that adoption laws need to be rewritten...
...heroine is Ellen Olenska, May's cousin, now separated from her European aristocrat husband and thus the subject of purring rumor from the town's smooth hypocrites. As the radiantly giddy May seems a child to Newland, so he feels like a boy in Ellen's presence. The two fall in furtive love. But it is not falling so much as tiptoeing in the dark. Once he kisses her slipper; later he unbuttons her glove and kisses her wrist, then her mouth, which opens more in anguish than in lust. Guilt is the barrier between their lips. And both could...
...they're not. Witness the experience of British engineer David Rowbottom and his Australian cousin Tania Miller, who were entranced by the promise of dramatic vistas in Turkey until they found themselves staring down the gun barrels of insurgents from the Kurdistan Workers Party, a guerrilla group lately kidnapping tourists as part of its war for independence. After packing Rowbottom and Miller around the backcountry for five weeks to avoid searches by the Turkish army, the guerrillas freed the couple last week. Rowbottom and Miller expressed relief at being released alive and unharmed. They did not indicate, however, whether they...
...Pittsfield. Mass. Clearly, the majority of people willing to pay $12 per spot on the lawn knew they were getting good music, or at least what they were told was good music. Nonetheless, most of the conversation that could be heard was more like "Have you met my cousin Morry?" than "Have you heard Zukerman's new Beethoven sonatas...
...clientele alike dressed in a manner that spoke of serious money and, in the former's case, aspirations for imminent adulthood. The program was filled with advertisements for retirement communities. I hadn't brought along a folding beach chair. To make matters worse, I have no gold-sporting cousin named Morry...