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What makes Unprotected's sex talk work is that it rises above the level of moronic frat-boy humour. It's not that the album is afraid of the scatological (Schimmel describes an exchange between his wife and himself: "Maybe you suffer from premature ejaculation." "Does it look like I'm suffering? Those aren't tears on your belly."). It's that the album isn't potty-mouthed for its own sake (hello, South Park). It focuses on Schimmel's family life, and its central point is our common insecurities about sex and the absurdities they drive us to: peeking...
Cuban boat boy Elian Gonzalez's fate will be settled in court, but not in the Florida family court that ruled in favor of his Miami relatives. Attorney General Janet Reno Wednesday dismissed Judge Rosa Rodriguez's ruling granting temporary custody of Elian to a local relative as irrelevant since the court had no jurisdiction in a federal matter. Reno informed lawyers for Elian's Miami relatives that they'd have to go to a federal courthouse to challenge the INS decision to reunite the boy with his father. The Florida Gonzalez family expressed disappointment, but said they would file...
...Judge Rodriguez claimed jurisdiction," says TIME correspondent Viveca Novak. Adds TIME correspondent Adam Cohen, "There's a feeling that sometimes state courts are more beholden to the political system, and we've seen that in this case with questions over the judge's ties to people allied with the boy's family." It emerged Tuesday that a political activist who has acted as a spokesman for the boy's Miami relatives had also served as a political adviser to Judge Rodriguez during her 1998 election campaign. While Reno's decision starts the courtroom process higher up the judicial chain...
...wonder Havana wants the Elian Gonzalez case settled in Washington rather than in Miami's courts. TIME has learned that a political consultant who has been at the forefront of efforts to keep Elian in the U.S. and has acted as a spokesman for the boy's Miami relatives also served as a political consultant to the judge who on Monday awarded one those relatives temporary custody. Armando Gutierrez served as a political consultant in the 1998 election campaign of Judge Rodriguez, who said Monday that (unlike the U.S. government) she'd been convinced that Elian faces imminent danger...
...government have, until now, rejected the option of his traveling to Miami for a family court hearing, charging that Florida's courts are open to influence from the powerful anti-Castro exile lobby. Although it's still legally possible for Washington to stick by its decision to send the boy home by Friday - legal experts suggest the case falls outside of the Florida family court's jurisdiction - the option may have become politically unpalatable for Washington. Sending Elian home against the wishes of his Florida family would require the INS to issue a deportation order. That would force the Clinton...