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Tuesday, September 10
Just the way everyone wants to become famous: a precedent-setting dispute between divorced parents over their conflicting wishes regarding their 8-year-old son's circumcision. The presiding Cook County judge is requiring the parties to, ahem, maintain the status quo until the "best interests of the child" can be sorted out. Until then, he's not even allowed to hear about the case.