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(...) The legal rulings do get confusing, don't they? My understanding is that the ruling to hand over the child was valid and no temporary restraining order was in effect (or perhaps in effect by a sufficiently high enough court). (...) Now Larry, (...) (24 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) All murderous issues aside, isn't her "quivering lip" due to her Parkinson's as opposed to some affected emotionalism? (...) This seems to presume that parents in a communist state must either be decietful or under duress to wish to remain in (...) (24 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) There appear to be conflicting court orders in effect, as there is also a ruling in effect that Elian can apply for asylum in his own right and that the guardianship is valid. Or that's my understanding. (...) Andre Marrou. John Bergland. Ron (...) (24 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The "family" was forcibly detaining Elian against court orders from being reunited with his father. Why they aren't in jail is beyond me. (...) Find me a (living) politician who is! :-) (...) Nope. They were just continually stalling. But (...) (24 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Why I can't say I really support the way Elian was removed from his great-uncles house and reunited with his father, I don't think there were many other options considering the number of protestors that were usually around the house. However, (...) (24 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Good morning, Scott Costello schreef: (...) So, someone sinned and now you want it to so either ? (...) Like you stated but Im not surprised at all, you Americans can make an fuss out of everything and always do things to surprise us Europeans. So (...) (24 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I totally agree Scott - when I saw the pic of this on the front page of the paper yesterday I was horrified. What are these people thinking of? That poor kid is likely to be scarred for life. "Best interests of the child" indeed! Kevin (24 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Alright I know that this may not be the proper forum for this discussion, but I wanted to vent my concerns to someone, and after the extensive anti-Mormon thread I figured what the heck. (I will endure any flame because of it). I must say that I am (...) (24 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Why was this followed up to debate? I don't see anything controversial! :-) Seems like good elaboration for the FAQ. ++Lar (24 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) a (...) If you haven't already, read "What Color is Your Parachute". A great book of practical advice on job-hunting. Bruce (24 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) [ie, "sorry to follow myself up] (...) There is on Usenet. I'm not sure exactly where it comes from, but it is bad nettiquette. I *think* it's to prevent one person from keeping a thread alive when no one else cares. At any rate, I have seen (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Some of the best teachers i had in highschool taught this way. If you didn't understand something they would try hard to find out why you were having trouble and did whatever they could to help. And did this without holding up the rest. (...) (...) (24 years ago, 22-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Aye, there's a teacher at our school (he teaches history) who brought in about 20 blue tubs of Legos. He divided us into groups, and we each built an Early English Castle model. THIS is the kind of stuff I learn from! -Chris (25 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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<snip> I'd venture to say that the attitude he displays helps drag down the (...) Touche. I'm not trying to drag down standards, nor criticize you. I'm not saying you criticized me; we each have our own opinion, and are entitled to it. My GPA is (...) (25 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Add not-so-industrialized nations to these..:-) At least for high schools. One of my friends from high school went to US via an international student exchange program for a period of one year in a US high school. I remembered that he was not (...) (25 years ago, 10-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) However, if you ever happen to find yourself travelling in Britain, rent yourself a car with a manual transmission. The stick shift will be on the left side. :D I've never had a problem with using a mouse with my right hand, though. In fact, I (...) (25 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Tell your critics to check out the story of Ehud the Left-Handed (Judges 3:12- 30). God makes use of all kinds of people. Incidentally, the Hebrew language reads from right to left, so unless all the Israelites wrote backwards, they would have (...) (25 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I've heard that as well. It was related to cultures with strong feelings/tradition around 'clean' and 'defiled', I seem to remember. (...) "I admit it--your are a better swordsman than I." "Then why are you smiling?" "Because I know something (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Mo, it's a compliment. Or a complement. You decide. FUT .o-t.fun ++Lar (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) This is playing dangerously close to equivocation: using one mindset’s definition of success to refute the success of another mindset that uses a different definition. If you define success as happiness or job satisfaction (and that’s a valid (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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