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...investigation into Harvard and the other universities centers on questions about the relationships between the program providers and the universities, and the manner in which students are billed for study abroad programs...
When Polanski was arrested for assaulting Gailey, his case drew the attention of Judge Rittenband, who had also presided over Elvis Presley's divorce, Marlon Brando's child-custody battle and a paternity suit against Cary Grant. Rittenband, in a manner reminiscent of the one-liner-dropping judge in the Anna Nicole Smith case, liked the spotlight. He even had a bailiff maintain a scrapbook of his newspaper clippings...
Breaking years of silence, Polanski's defense attorney Douglas Dalton and the district attorney Roger Gunson detail the strange manner in which the case proceeded. Two court-appointed psychiatrists examined Polanski and determined that he was not a mentally deranged sex offender. Both attorneys and the victim argued for a plea bargain, but Rittenband, concerned with appearing soft on crime, sent Polanski to Chino State Penitentiary to undergo another 90-day evaluation period. On several occasions, Rittenband persuaded the attorneys to put on a show for the media, Dalton and Gunson say, arguing their sides even though the judge...
...equal treatment. Franck Tanguy, spokesman for France's Association of Gay and Lesbian Parents, says "this ruling is a step in the right direction" in that it "requires countries that, like France, allow singles to adopt children to treat unmarried homosexual and heterosexual applicants in exactly the same manner." Failure to do so in any country with such legislation, Tanguy says, means they'd "find themselves condemned again and again for discrimination by the many single homosexuals who'd use this precedent to base a legal defense on". However, Tanguy regrets the ruling "won't change anything in countries that...
...from economic growth to social integration, from energy renewal to democratic reform. Yet the most important advice Zapatero received from the "Council of Sages" - as the media dubbed the Prime Minister's Advisory Committee of Progressive Intellectuals - may have been less about the substance of his platform than the manner in which he and his party deliver...