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...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...
Scheduled speakers Mandy Grunwald, media advisor for the Clinton campaign, and former Yale President Benno Schmidt, president and CEO of the Edison Project, did not attend...
Last Friday at a Columbia-Yale basketball game, unidentified sources distributed about 650 fake editions of the Columbia Daily Spectator proclaiming Benno C. Schmidt Jr. to be the school's new president. Schmidt stepped down as Yale president last spring...