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...Adrian Nastase told Time that a new package of child protection legislation is forthcoming, including the restoration of international adoptions, but only "as a last resort." In mid-September, the first county, Teleorman in southern Romania, closed all of its remaining large old-style institutions. "We are only about halfway there," says Silviu Calciu, adviser on strategy to the National Authority for Child Protection and Adoption. "But we are on the right track." Romania's abandoned children are the legacy of the megalomaniac policies of the late Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, who tried to boost the population to 30 million...
...Halfway across the world, Ahmed el-Gaili, who is slated to graduate this spring from Harvard Law School, is now taking classes at a London law school and hoping to join his class in January...
...have another solution,” Coulter offered, halfway through a scattered speech which actually did very little to elucidate just how liberals and terrorists are suffering from the same disease. “It’s a little something I like to call racial profiling.” According to Coulter, racial profiling at airports is such a foolproof measure against terrorism that only a paper like the “Treason Times”—also occasionally referred to as The New York Times—would be so unpatriotic as to publish editorials against...
...Chicago law firm while turning out best sellers every three years or so (Presumed Innocent, Personal Injuries, The Laws of Our Fathers), nearly had the life sucked out of his own universe when he handled a similar case in 1991. As if that weren't enough, halfway through writing Errors, a book that harks back to that traumatic case, he was appointed to a controversial commission examining all the death-penalty convictions in his state. Following up on that commission's highly critical report, Illinois Governor George Ryan last week said the flawed state system could not be trusted...
...trusts us now. One of the misperceptions of the movies is, she's coming in and ripping down the wallpaper." Now she'll have to trust someone else, since Columbus will not direct the third film, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. "I really thought halfway through the second one, it's been almost two years since I've had dinner with my family during the week," says Columbus, who'll serve as executive producer on the next movie. His replacement: Alfonso Cuarón, a surprising choice since his last film was Y tu mamátambi...