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Steven Masone hasn't lived with ex-wife Susan Tanner for seven years, but he still can't get over one of her habits: chain smoking. It bothers him because it bothers their daughter Elysa, 8, who suffers from asthma. Masone, a minister in Stockton, California, worries that Tanner is aggravating Elysa's condition by lighting up around her. He even got a court order five years ago, barring Tanner from smoking in Elysa's presence. But Tanner's puffing -- and Masone's huffing -- continued. Finally, after Elysa had an asthma attack this month, a doctor said the child would...
...unusual for courts to rescue children from their own homes, but their parents are usually charged with gross neglect or abuse. Tanner, who plans to appeal, is losing her daughter for doing something that is perfectly legal, even if it is frowned upon by the Surgeon General. Hers is one of a growing number of cases, mainly involving children in divorce custody suits, in which judges have prohibited parents from smoking around kids who are sensitive to tobacco. Legal Times reported this month that courts in at least 11 states have dealt with the issue, almost always siding with...
...most of the bright spots on the fall schedule can be traced to stars. Family Album (CBS) might be dismissed as just another shrill family sitcom were it not for Peter Scolari (Newhart) and Pamela Reed (Tanner '88), playing a couple who move their family back East to be closer to their aging parents. Everyone on the show is wired, from a TV-mesmerized son ("Joan Lunden's hair! What is she thinking?") to a splenetic, cigar-smoking grandfather ("I don't get it. You have your third heart attack, and everybody panics"). In the midst of this mayhem, Reed...
...heard as early as last term that the YaleCorporation was holding off on making a listpending the outcome of thepresidential election," said Jeff R. Tanner, asophomore
Also, with sophomore Tom Marcotullio sick during the past few days, freshman Tanner Sly will probably take over Marcotullio's backfield position. With its next game against ferocious Ivy rival Princeton, the Crimson cannot slip and slide any longer...