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This ought to guarantee a livelihood to untold numbers of lawyers: Thomas Kirk, an Orlando circuit-court judge, says an 11-year-old boy can sue to "divorce" his parents. Kirk ruled that "Gregory K." can seek to sever all legal ties with his natural parents so that he can be adopted by a family with whom he has been living for nine months. Gregory's lawyers claimed that he was abused by his natural parents. Children's rights advocates hailed the novel decision...
...spring of 1990 the Faculty of Arts andSciences issued an ultimatum. If the military didnot lift ban on gays and lesbians within two yearsthe Harvard the faculty would sever all ties withROTC...
...faculty will again tackle the issue thisfall after the committee, headed by PforzheimerUniversity Professor Sidney Verba '53, makes itsrecommendation. Although student interest in theissue has waned in recent years, it could increaseagain if the faculty votes to stick to its promiseand sever ties...
MOST OF MY FOUR YEARS at Harvard have been spent along the Canaday-Sever-Lemont-Crimson-Quincy axis, so I've probably walked in and out of the Yard through Dexter Gate 1000 times. Everyone knows the Charles Eliot inscription on the way in--"Enter to Grow in Wisdom"--but I'd bet I'm one of a handful of Harvard students who have memorized the inscription above the exit--"Depart to Serve Better Thy Country And Thy Kind...
...McCormack report recommended the status quo; Belai proposed Harvard sever all ties with the program; and Daniel H. Tabak '92 drafted a compromise, which sought to terminate the program and replace it with a public sector scholarship program as a financial surrogate for ROTC cadets...