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...Adoption is not permitted in either Sudan or Chad; and any effort to engineer the adoption of citizens from either country is legally punishable, as are violations of immigration procedures by unauthorized attempts to remove the children from Chad. Adoption arranged by an organization not officially chartered for that function is also prohibited in France. Officials at Zoe's Ark explain their intention was to get the children to safety in France by any means, then initiate extraordinary procedures once on French soil to obtain special refugee status for the children. Though the youngsters were to be placed in foster...
Watson came to the research center while serving as a Harvard professor. He left Harvard in 1976, writing to then-Dean of the College Henry Rosovsky that he was “unable to function simultaneously as a Harvard professor and as the Director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory...
...where all student-group events must technically be registered, reveals changes reflecting a stricter alcohol policy, including the automatic incorporation of a BAT Request Application for all events at which alcohol will be served. The site also advises the hiring of a police detail for “any function where alcohol is served with expected attendance of 100 or more guests...
...Italian contemporary art critic and curator Achille Bonito Oliva has long considered Toscani an important artist, and provided him with two large salas at the 1993 Venice Biennele which he presided over. "The function of art is to puncture the collective disinterest," says Bonito Oliva. "Toscani has turned on its head American pop art's optimistic idea of consumerism...
Most controversially—and most refreshingly—he argued that academic philosophy had become sterile and irrelevant, and that the true function of philosophy, that of continually questioning and redefining the meaning of human life, was best served not by conferences and obscure dissertations but by the blooming, buzzing confusion of literature and artistic creation...