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...water. A car driven by Cameron Douglas, 17, Michael and Diandra's son, got into an accident with a Secret Service agent's car. The agent was then dragged by the teen's car when he reached in to grab the keys. "Anybody who's a parent knows how difficult and painful [this] is," said a family statement...
...play through sundown. "We've played the last hole in the dark many times," says Bowles, who is reported to be a far better player than the President. The two men have in common their Southern ambition and a childhood in a household with an alcoholic parent (Clinton's stepfather, Bowles' mother, long since recovered). But the pair are opposites in many ways. "I spent my whole life in the private sector, he in the public," observes Bowles. "Some of my greatest strengths are in organization and structure; he is a freer thinker than I am." Clinton has always been...
...find a way out. Video clips of the cd-rom's main character, Lizzy, and her friends add a realistic touch to the adventure, while visits to haunts like the Full Moon Cafe--with its menu of scrambled brains and blood pudding--add to the eeriness. The game mixes parent-stumping logic puzzles with a rich landscape that kids will find endlessly intriguing. ($44.95; Dreamworks Interactive...
...forcing Simpson to shuttle back and forth between two courtrooms. For another, the custody trial (expected to last about five weeks) may conclude before a verdict in the civil trial--a verdict that could, one assumes, have a bearing on the issue of whether Simpson is a fit parent. "It is beyond comprehension that the custody court has seen fit to proceed now," says Martin Guggenheim, a family-law specialist at New York University. Yet Sorrell Trope, a veteran California family-law attorney, points out that the civil trial could drag on for months and be followed by years...
...Browns will not have an easy time winning custody. In California, as in most states, the burden of proof is on the party wishing to take a child away from a natural parent. However, courts have become more flexible in recent years, and Judge Stock is reputed to be more amenable than many judges to granting custody to nonbiological parents. "The standard for removing a child from a parent is high," says Trope. "It requires a showing to the court that it would be detrimental to be placed with that parent. The evidentiary standard is also more extreme, almost like...