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According to the North American Adoption Congress in New York City, there are more than 60,000 Americans engaged in quests like Szymczak's: mothers anxiously seeking children they gave up at birth, children hunting for their biological parents. Desperate, obsessive, their searches have, over the past two decades, ceased...
At the forefront of the movement are the N.A.A.C. and ALMA (Adoptees Liberty Movement Association), which lobby to change state laws protecting the confidentiality of adoption records. Three states -- Alabama, Alaska and Kansas -- have completely open records, available to all adoptees over 18. Other states require the consent of a...
What happened? To House Speaker Thomas Foley, the answer was simple: Americans love a tax cut -- any kind of tax cut -- and the legislators reflected that feeling. Democrats contended, correctly, that 80% of the benefits from the capital-gains slash would go to people making more than $100,000 a...
If found liable, Deforges could be required to turn over the profits of all French and English editions of Bicyclette, estimated at about $16 million before taxes. Mon Dieu! With so much money at stake, even Rhett Butler might have given a damn.
But since then a series of leaks to the foreign press of internal party circulars has provided documentation of Deng's efforts to convince conservative claimants to his throne that the reform-minded Jiang should follow in the footsteps of Mao Zedong and Deng and serve as "the core" of...