Word: schmidts
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Levin, the Beinecke professor of economics at Yale, will take office as president on July 1 and will be officially inaugurated at a traditional ceremony in mid-September. Levin will succeed Acting President Howard R. Lamar who temporarily ran the university after Benno C. Schmidt Jr. abruptly resigned last June...
...named Miles, her yellow bedroom and just about everything she has ever known, except perhaps a few favorite stuffed animals. Under court order, the dark-eyed, inquisitive girl will be transported 400 miles west to the small farming community of Blairstown, Iowa, to begin life anew as Anna Lee Schmidt...
...would-be adoptive parents who have held and nurtured her almost since birth. Last Tuesday, the claims of blood prevailed when the Michigan Court of Appeals deferred to an earlier ruling of the Iowa Supreme Court that granted custody of the girl to her biological parents, Cara and Daniel Schmidt. Now the other couple, Roberta and Jan DeBoer, have 21 days to appeal a decision that has sent shudders throughout the nation's adoption community. Says Mary Beth Seader, vice president of the National Council for Adoption: "People don't trust the permanency of American adoption anymore...
That blessing soon became a curse as Cara started to have second thoughts. Six days after the birth, she informed ex-boyfriend Daniel Schmidt that he had actually fathered the child; she had listed Scott as the father partly to avoid the embarrassment of acknowledging an ex-lover. Anguished, Schmidt promptly launched a legal battle to terminate the adoption proceedings. Backed up by blood tests proving his paternity, he blocked the adoption in Iowa courts...
Daniel and Cara Schmidt surely must think they will make the best possible parents for Jessica, and the child may agree when she is older. But that will be small comfort to her on the morning of April 21 if she wakes up in a completely different house under the loving gaze of strangers...