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...Battle for ``Baby Richard'' Re-igniting a furor over the finality of adoptions and the rights of biological parents, the Illinois Supreme Court decided for the second time in a year that 3 12-year-old ``Baby Richard'' be taken from his adoptive parents and returned to his biological father Otakar Kirchner. Kirchner, who has never met his son, began fighting for custody shortly after the baby's birth. He has since married the baby's mother, who put the baby up for adoption and initially led him to believe the baby had died. U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul...
...Well, I think job searching is a part of it; in the past three years, many are the newspaper internship posters I have seen that say "minorities especially encouraged to apply" or "this program open to minorities only." This phenomenon has become relatively common. Think that the furor over "reverse discrimination" might die down soon? I doubt it, not with colleges turning out kids accustomed to thinking of themselves as disadvantaged in the job market--because they're white...
...court, California Governor Pete Wilson signed three new laws that went into effect Jan. 1, penalizing witnesses or jurors who sell information about a pending case. And last month, after a bit of the Enquirer's tabloid color seeped into the gray pages of the New York Times, the furor was sufficient to occupy O.J. watchers until the DNA hearings begin this week...
...days after the furor died down over recent plans to issue a stamp showing the 1945 Hiroshima mushroom cloud, a newly-declassified document shows the U.S. had contingency plans to drop the atomic bomb on China in the 1950s. The National Archives today released an April 17, 1954 memo (signed by the secretary to the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Eisenhower Administration), which spells out plans to bomb China if the Chinese violated the tenuous truce that ended the Korean War. "In light of the enemy capability to launch a massive ground offensive, U.S. air support operations, including...
...recent furor began on November 18 when Senator Helms responded to the question of whether he thought President Clinton was "up to the job" of Commander in Chief. Helms simply said, "No 1 do not. And neither do the people in the armed forces...