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Last September, Orange County Superior Court Judge Robert Monarch agreed that Buzzanca was not by any legal definition the child's father--and thus could not be required to pay support. He also ruled that Luanne Buzzanca was not the legal mother of Jaycee--although he noted that this particular problem might be solved if she adopted Jaycee...
Just days after Monarch's ruling, a California court granted temporary custody of Jaycee to Luanne Buzzanca and ordered John to pay child support until an appeal could be heard. Until that time, Jaycee's plight will continue to be, well, inconceivable...
...family. The royal family that we envision is not one of privilege, but of duty, where representing the highest morals of the country is considered a mandatory job. What if the heir to the throne didn't want to be king or queen? Forcing such a person to become monarch would be a violation of his or her right of self-determination. Also, such a person, forced into office, would probably be a terrible monarch...
...supermodels seem to fit the role of the would-be national symbol quite well, as these celebrities increasingly turn to organizing charitable works and fundraisers. Perhaps you could say that the absence of having a monarchy results in the democratic right to create one's own idols in a monarch's stead. You can even dream of becoming a celebrity yourself. On the other hand, celebrities lack a sense of permanence--Andy Warhol's 15 minutes of fame is an apt description. And these celebrities have no real obligation to represent anyone except themselves...
...beautiful fall afternoon not long ago, all 120 eighth-grade students and four of their teachers at the Olson Middle School in Minneapolis, Minn., walked across a grassy playing field down to nearby Shingle Creek. For the past five weeks, they had been raising monarch butterflies--from caterpillar through chrysalis--and now 30 of them were ready for release...