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Parenthood did not come easily to Kevin and Kim Knussman. First there was a painful year of fertility treatments. Then complications in Kim's pregnancy forced her doctors to induce labor prematurely, leaving her bedridden. Kevin, a trooper with the Maryland state police for 18 years, applied for extended leave to tend to his wife and infant, a request that fell under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act and a state law that provides paid leave for primary caregivers. He was allotted just 10 days, at the end of which his wife was still hemorrhaging and too weak...
...first-ever sex-discrimination case brought under the federal act. The state argued that Kevin did not alert the right people to his wife's condition and failed to prove that he was the primary care provider. "It was never a gender-based issue," says Maryland assistant attorney general Betty Stemley Sconion, who may appeal the verdict...
...center on standards, was host to a conference in Washington, where representatives from 20 states pledged to work toward a shared national standard by offering uniform exam questions. In the meantime, students like Lajoi probably have less to worry about than the people in charge of teaching them. The Maryland board of education has just targeted three elementary schools in Prince George's County for state takeover because of poor test results. And the county's school board voted not to renew the contract of its superintendent...
...impeachment ushered Starr offstage, it also freed up his prosecutors to work quietly on the office's next act. One murky plot line concerns Kathleen Willey's story of presidential groping, which Clinton denied to the grand jury, and what she calls intimidation to silence her. Last week Maryland private detective Jared Stern told TIME that he has appeared twice before Starr's grand jury to answer questions about Willey and Nathan Landow, a Clinton-Gore fund raiser. Landow claims that his lawyer, acting without his permission, hired Stern to investigate Willey. Stern won't comment on who hired...
...known to be hostile to Miranda, may see an appeal of the Virginia ruling as an opportunity to knock out Miranda entirely. For now, the lower court's elimination of its protections applies only to federal cases in five states: North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland...