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...which even the Iowa courts considered "exemplary" -- has dumbfounded many Americans. But while the DeBoers have garnered the most sympathy, they also share part of the blame. Within weeks after they first tucked Jessica into her new nursery, Roberta and Jan learned that the biological parents were fighting to regain custody. By choosing to dig in even after the adoption proceedings were nullified, the couple risked defeat later, when transfer to another home would be more devastating for Jessica...
Sometimes even abandonment is permitted. In Connecticut two years ago, an 18-year-old mother using a false name abandoned her child in a New Haven hospital just hours after giving birth. More than five months later, she resurfaced and sued to regain custody of the child, who had since been adopted. Last December the state supreme court upheld a lower-court ruling granting her custody even though she was living in a shelter for the homeless at the time...
...SAYS YOU CAN NEVER GO HOME AGAIN? EVER since Sanford Weill sold Shearson Loeb Rhoades, the brokerage firm that he created, to American Express in 1981, he has longed to regain control of the company. After several failed attempts, Weill finally hit pay dirt when Primerica Corp., where he serves as chairman, acquired financially ailing Shearson Lehman Bros. in a $1.2 billion deal that ranks as the largest in the history of the securities business...
Johnson said then that the loss of the channel was "temporary," although the department has yet to regain an extra channel. Several security guards interviewed in January said the radio logjam might hurt their ability to respond in an emergency...
...Bill, wherever you are, I just wanted to tell you that -- after Steve Martin, and just ahead of Billy Crystal, and until Eddie Murphy and Bette Midler regain their strides -- you are screen comedy, pal. And I mean that, even if when Bill says, "I mean that," you're pretty sure he doesn't mean that. I do mean that. Really. I mean that...