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With the "Baby M." case still unresolved, another surrogate dispute ended in San Diego last week with an unorthodox divided custody. High School Science Teacher Mario Haro and his wife Nattie say her second cousin, Alejandra Munoz, agreed in 1985 to bear a child for them for a $1,500 fee but then demanded more money. Munoz, 20, claims the Haros had falsely assured her that after three weeks the embryo would be implanted in Nattie Haro. The child, Lydia Michelle, was born in June. The settlement approved by a judge will permit Munoz to see the child several days...
That may be idle dreaming. A former Sunday-school teacher who has run so often for Governor that he earned the nickname the "Harold Stassen of Arizona," Mecham squeezed into office with 40% of the vote in a three-way race that split the Democratic electorate. He blames "abuse from the press" for his current problems, and as far as the recall campaign is concerned, the veteran auto dealer shows no sign of offering voters any sort of rebate, much less a brand-new model...
While Honeywell approved of Kipervarg's work, Expository Writing teacher Sandy Kreisberg qualified his congratulations yesterday. "The criteria for judging a paper and judging a contest are often vastly different," he said...
...years later Gary Ahearn sat down at the organ in a Los Angeles special-education classroom. Facing the keyboard for the first time, he played an imperfect but recognizable version of Liszt's Liebestraume. A teacher brought him to Walker, and today he plays eight instruments. Like Ahearn, the students at Hope University have learned emotional and physical control through music and art instruction. Indeed, Hope's program has been so successful that many students now hold part-time jobs...
...Julius Caesar, it is said, was moved to tears when he contemplated a statue of a young Alexander and considered the accomplishments of his own first 20 years. My own first such moment came at age four, when the Kindergarten putsch I had engineered was suppressed by the gym teacher...