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...federal court in Rio finally did the right thing last summer and ruled that Sean and David should be reunited. An appellate court upheld that ruling on Wednesday, and David flew to Rio on Thursday hoping to bring Sean back home for Christmas. But in a move that rivals the most disgraceful machinations of the Elián episode, Brazil's Supreme Court ruled as David arrived that the case requires further review. Now, the soonest the father can hope to be reunited with the son, if he can hope for that at all, is February...
...Khazei has convinced Harvard students to support him, and he has convinced me to support him. As The Globe put it, he represents “Massachusetts’ best chance to produce the next great senator,” and he embodies a tradition that Ted Kennedy proudly upheld during his congressional tenure. As a worthy successor to the “Lion of the Senate,” only one candidate can effectively fill the spot. Hopefully, voters making it out to the polls (open between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m. on Tuesday) will remember that that candidate...
...withheld from the defense, and, in a note, observed that "the evidence of Dr. Bennett's marriage to prosecutor Hanes should have been permitted at trial to imply bias." The appeals court judges said that while that relationship did not ultimately "prejudice the result" of the trial (which they upheld); yet they observed that "every court that has reviewed this case has been struck by certain aspects of the trial and actions of prosecutors that violate the fundamental notions of fair play on which our legal system is based...
...back at Kuperman’s rehearsal, curricular reform is far from the dancers minds. Getting ready for a full run-through of the piece, they focus their energy on delivering a performance that effectively conveys the choreographer’s artistic concept and exceeds the standards upheld by the Company...
...Still, the Strasbourg court cannot be accused of discriminating against Christianity in particular. In 2005, the human-rights court upheld a then long-standing ban on headscarves in public buildings in Turkey, a law that has since been eased by the current ruling Muslim party. And of course, beyond the halls of its European institutions, the city of Strasbourg is also in the heart of the ever more secularized French Republic, where students are forbidden from wearing headscarves or any other religious symbol in public schools. To U.S. and U.K. sensibilities, this ban continues to seem as strange as crucifixes...