Word: legalism
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...intercontinental playdates for the kids, venting about their pretty-boy partners, discussing Third World debt. So when France's Gala magazine quoted Jolie as saying of the Material Girl's adoption of a 1-year-old from Malawi last year, "It's a country where there is no real legal framework for adoption. Personally, I prefer to stay on the right side of the law," it sounded like the makings of an A-list mama brawl. But Jolie, whose adopted children Maddox, 5, and Zahara, 2, are from Cambodia and Ethiopia, later issued a statement saying her words had been...
...Search for common ground. Both parties believe that Bush will finally get through Congress an immigration bill that includes at least temporary legal status for workers who are now undocumented. Bush will also emphasize other issues on which Democrats may want to deal, including lowering costs for college students, making health care affordable and curbing spending...
Those deploring the Ashley Treatment as a medical fix for more than one family are watching the direction that Britain is taking. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecology has proposed that doctors openly consider allowing euthanasia of the sickest infants, which is legal in the Netherlands. "A very disabled child can mean a disabled family," the college wrote to the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and urged that it "think more radically about nonresuscitation, withdrawal of treatment decisions ... and active euthanasia, as they are ways of widening the management options available to the sickest of newborns...
...native Italy, most famously when he tried to wed Loren, whom he had met when she was a teenage beauty contestant. The couple first attempted their marriage in 1957, but the bond was annulled because Ponti had previously been married, and divorce was not yet legal in Italy. The two successfully wed in Paris...
...experience as well as awards and honors. Graduate students have asked for a more formalized system, Skocpol said. Among its other recommendations, the report encourages greater faculty involvement in the instruction of teaching fellows. Such recommendations, Skocpol said, are a “statement of ideals, not a legal contract.” “These recommendations are pretty comprehensive. We need to carry these things through.” —Staff writer Samuel P. Jacobs can be reached at jacobs@fas.harvard.edu...