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Russian President Dmitri Medvedev called Hansen's decision to abandon her child a "monstrous deed." Hansen's adoption agency, World Association for Children and Parents - one of only about 30 agencies fully accredited by the Russian government - had its license to facilitate Russian adoptions suspended in the wake of the...
"This woman had alternatives," says Debbie Spivack, an adoption attorney with offices in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware who has helped facilitate placement of children given up by their adoptive families. "She really endangered the child and did something exceptionally damaging for everybody else."
So Cameron is unlikely to duck the debate, unlike Tony Blair. In 1997 Blair, who was ahead in the polls, challenged incumbent Prime Minister John Major to a debate, but Labour then claimed that negotiations over the format had broken down. Major riposted that Blair had chickened out, and the...
Vatican insiders say the brushup is the latest sign that the troubles in Rome run deeper than just the Pope's apparent difficulty in facing accusations about his role in the church's dark past on this issue. Blame often falls first on Bertone, whom Benedict plucked for the prime...
Bertone has tried to exert his influence over the unwieldy Vatican bureaucracy by placing his trusted Italians in key positions and serving as the ultimate gatekeeper to the Pope, who has fewer direct meetings than his predecessor had and stays focused on his writings and continuing his work as guardian...