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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...BRAD PITT, 42, who for months have been cozily co-parenting two international adoptees, Cambodian-born MADDOX, 4, and Ethiopian-born ZAHARA MARLEY, 1. The oft denied romance began amid rumors that Pitt and his ex-wife Jennifer Aniston split because he wanted to start a family. Enter irresistible, orphan-toting U.N. spokeswoman Jolie, and by December, a smitten Pitt was formally adopting Maddox and Zahara. Jolie has said she would like to adopt again. Apparently, the couple's shared dream of a U.N.-style playroom has only just begun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 23, 2006 | 1/15/2006 | See Source »

...YOUR HUSBAND HAVE ALSO ADOPTED A RWANDAN ORPHAN. HOW DID THAT COME ABOUT? Well, we haven't officially adopted him. We work with refugees in London, and one day we met this wonderful Rwandan lad who was 15 at the time. He had been through some awful things. He's 19 now. I don't like nuclear families. I think it's very good to look beyond your tribe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Emma Thompson | 1/15/2006 | See Source »

...Smith costar Brad Pitt, 42, have decided to procure a new baby the old-fashioned way. The very public but oft-denied romance began amid rumors that Pitt and his ex-wife Jennifer Aniston separated because he wanted to start a family and Aniston did not. Enter that irresistible, orphan-toting United Nations spokeswoman Jolie on the 2005 set of Smith, and by last December a smitten Pitt was formally adopting Maddox and Zahara. Jolie, who is in the Dominican Republic filming The Good Shepherd with Matt Damon, has said she would like to adopt again. Apparently the couple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Awaiting Baby Brangelina | 1/11/2006 | See Source »

...Winans’ recent single “I Don’t Wanna Know” sample Celtic new age diva Enya’s plaintive melody “Boadicea” (same beat, different key and drums). In the words of Jay-Z (who notably ripped orphan Annie for “Hard Knock Life”), “What more...

Author: By Vinita M. Alexander, Ben B. Chung, Daniel J. Hemel, Marianne F. Kaletzky, Kristina M. Moore, Will B. Payne, Abe J. Riesman, and Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Executive Decisions | 12/15/2005 | See Source »

...Adams House. Those less well off lived in the Yard in buildings that would be condemned today; they did not even have plumbing. Many students commuted from Boston. The social discrepancy was so bad that a New York Daily Post writer labeled Harvard a “social orphan asylum.” While University President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, had been content to let private business solve the housing problem, Lowell felt that something had to be done, and so he set about planning the House system...

Author: By Jonathan C. Bardin | Title: Leaving Pomp, Reviving Program | 12/1/2005 | See Source »

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