Word: legality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Negotiators from Harvard and Radcliffe are scrambling to nail down the details of their legal merger document before June 30--the date when Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson will leave her office and officials had initially hoped the agreement would be completed...
...viable livestock or crops. Simply feeding the internally displaced Kosovars will require shipments of 1,000 tons of food daily. Because Serbian authorities destroyed most of the ethnic Albanians' personal records, KFOR and the U.N.'s civilian administrators will face the nightmarish task of sorting out those who have legal claims to land and property. The U.S. hopes to organize and oversee committees of local Kosovars to help U.N. officials coordinate the rebuilding of infrastructure, schools and clinics. But international-aid workers and peacekeepers will have to compete with the K.L.A., which will want to reassert control over villages...
...case, and a similar one pending in Illinois, could set new precedents for the rights of nonbiological or "psychological" parents. Steve Scarborough, a lawyer for the Lambda Legal Defense Fund, which promotes homosexual rights and is representing Kazmierazak, says courts in New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have "recognized the harm that comes to children when relationships with nonbiological parents are severed...
...suitable sperm donor who Kazmierazak says shared many of her characteristics, such as her artistic predilection. Query and Kazmierazak attended birthing classes and doctor's visits together, and Kazmierazak attended the birth. The two women brought Zoey home to Kazmierazak's house. The moms, seeking to establish a legal relationship between Kazmierazak and Zoey, were able only to execute a grant of custody to Kazmierazak, which gave her permission to take the child to doctor's visits and enroll her in day care...
...born in Baltimore, Md., in 1908, when it was still a sleepy Southern town, and he attended its segregated schools. After graduating from Howard Law School--the University of Maryland's law school didn't admit blacks--Marshall hung up a shingle in his hometown and did volunteer legal work for the local N.A.A.C.P. One of his early cases challenged pay gaps in education--black elementary school teachers in Maryland earned $621 a year, while white janitors made $960. Marshall's mother was one of those underpaid teachers...