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...Diana Bryant was sworn in as Chief Justice of Australia's Family Court last July. Though she rejects the accusation that the court is biased against men, fathers' groups generally have warmed to her because she's prepared to listen to them. In an interview with Time, Bryant argues that in the court's first years, in the late 1970s, almost no one complained that it was denying separated fathers sufficient time with their children. The judgments reflected the way we lived then: most fathers worked, most mothers didn't, so the formulaic patterns of contact after separation made sense...
...some surprises--most notably how quickly it was completed. Expected to last a month, it took just six court days for lawyers to settle on 12 jurors and eight alternates. There were surprises too in who was picked--and who was not. Of the eight women and four men sworn in as jurors, none are African American, seven are white, three Latino, one Asian and one race unknown. There is one African American among the alternates...
Over the next three years, as Summers tested his skill set, those who might have been Harvard University President moved on. Rice was sworn in as U.S. Secretary of State, and Klausner left the National Cancer Institute for a top spot in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Just this month, Sullivan accepted a prestigious one-year stint as counsel to a top California trial law firm, where she will build an appellate practice before returning to Stanford Law. She is rumored to be favored for a Supreme Court appointment...
...Based on a Fu Manchu novel by Sax Rohmer, the plot of Daughter of the Dragon extended the curse sworn by Dr. Fu on the Petrie family to the next generation. Fu Manchu (Warner Oland), long ago injured and exiled in an attempt on Petrie Sr., returns to London and confronts the father: "In the 20 years I have fought to live," he says in his florid maleficence, "the thought of killing you and your son has been my dearest nurse." He kills the father, is mortally wounded himself and, on his deathbed, reveals his identity to his daughter Ling...
...cabinet for botching the reforms, then ordered pensions raised. But pensioners are threatening bigger protests in February when a second wave of reductions kicks in. And this week, Putin is expecting a visit from the man to whom he "lost" Ukraine: Viktor Yushchenko, who was set to be sworn in as Ukrainian President last weekend despite Putin's very public support for his Kremlin-friendly opponent, Viktor Yanukovych...