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...months. Dan and Cara got married -- and waited to bring their daughter back home. That seemed all but assured when the Iowa Supreme Court upheld the lower-court ruling and said that while Dan's fitness as a parent was questionable and the court was tempted, for Jessica's sake, to leave her with the DeBoers, Dan's rights had priority over the baby's and so she belonged with the Schmidts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adoption: In Whose Best Interest? | 7/19/1993 | See Source »

...should stay where she was. He told the Schmidts that he understood their pain -- but that "prolonging this battle is going to have a terrible effect on this child." If they gave her up, he told them, they would be heroes, sacrificing their heart's desire for the sake of their child's well-being. They refused to concede...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adoption: In Whose Best Interest? | 7/19/1993 | See Source »

Even the Ivy League is moving away from its commitment to sports for the sake of sports. Last year, the conference passed a resolution to allow schools to drop freshman football, one of Restic's most cherished institutions. Every Ivy school but Harvard cut its freshman program...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: Still Keeping the Faith | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

Sportswriters have a responsibility to tell the story. Then again, is there an equally strong responsibility to tone a story down for the sake of personal feelings or the sake of student-athletes...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, | Title: The Long Goodbye | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

...attacked Inside Jeopardy!, a new book about the show, he acknowledges that the program does sometimes "wish to remove a clue that has a pro-male bias," which is one of the book's main charges. Here are some of the items that were allegedly switched for the sake of gender norming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Is Affirmative Action? | 6/7/1993 | See Source »

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