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Even though the marriage was a sham, Icelandic man is legal father By Scott Hammers
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An Icelandic man claiming to be the father of an Oregon girl is the legal father under state law, as he was married to the girl’s mother when the child was born. The girl, 3½Jade year-old Jade Axmaker Axmaker, was living in Bend with her aunt last summer when a Multnomah County court ruled she should be turned over to the family of Fannar Gunnlaugson, an Icelandic national. Attorney Steven Richkind, representing Jade’s aunt and former Bend resident Kayla Axmaker, said Gunnlaugson did not father Jade with mother Tara Axmaker, but has nonetheless been able to establish himself as her father through the courts and have Jade flown to Iceland. Gunnlaugson married Tara Axmaker in 2007, but was deported 1½ years later when Axmaker admitted he had paid her $1,000 to enter into a sham marriage to improve his chances for gaining permanent residency in the United States. Richkind said though Tara Axmaker had a sexual relationship with Gunnlaugson during the short time they lived together in Nevada, approximately 11 months had passed between their last contact and Jade’s birth in Oregon. Gunnlaugson had no contact with Jade during the approximately six months between her birth and his deportation, Richkind said. However, under Oregon law, any child born to a married woman is considered the husband’s child until proved otherwise — and Gunnlaugson was married to Tara Axmaker when Jade was born, if only on paper. See Girl / A5
• Bend High and UO graduate lands an environmental internship in D.C.
By Lauren Dake The Bulletin
EUGENE — Richard Lariviere, fired Monday as Pernsteiner president of the Uni- Lariviere versity of Oregon, received a standing ovation Wednesday from faculty and students, a greeting that stood in contrast to the one given George Pernsteiner, chancellor of the Oregon University System. Pernsteiner oversees the State Board of Higher Education, which voted to dismiss Lariviere. The chancellor faced a tough crowd at McArthur Court, where the university Senate held an emergency meeting. Several hundred attended. Many sported what have become familiar symbols of support for Lariviere, who was in attendance — fedoras and yellow and green shirts reading, “We love our prez.” As the chancellor started to speak, a crowd of students sitting high in the balconies of the old basketball arena interrupted him, shouting, “I object, I object.” The students proceeded to chant the university’s mission statement. When they finished, Pernsteiner acknowledged the university’s mission statement lauds dialogue and the free interchange of ideas. See President / A4 Andy Tullis / The Bulletin
Jessie McGrath, 24, performs tests Wednesday at Bend-based Grace Bio-Labs. In January, the 2006 Bend High grad will begin an internship at the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
A deceived daughter of Hollywood royalty
By Patrick Cliff The Bulletin
J
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she would be an intern in a White House office.
McGrath’s phone rang just as a DMV clerk called out her number. Because the caller ID was blocked, McGrath briefly considered ignoring the call. By answering, she’d have to wait in the line all over again. But she decided to take the call and barely heard above the DMV din that she’d been selected for an internship at the Council on Environmental Quality in the White House. McGrath’s internship runs from January to
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April. Her work will include researching environmental policy and writing summaries for congressional hearings. Though McGrath slipped to the back of the line, she had a dream internship — and eventually a renewed driver’s license. “I ended up probably having the biggest smile I’ve ever had in my life,” said McGrath, 24. See McGrath / A5
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Cheers for Lariviere, jeers for chancellor
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Her mother was Loretta Young. Her father was Clark Gable. Yet Judy Lewis spent her first 19 months in hideaways and orphanages, and the rest of her early life untangling a web of lies spun by a young mother hungry for stardom but unwilling to end her unwed pregnancy. Young’s deception was contrived to protect her budding movie career and the box-office power of the matinee idol Gable, who was married to someone else when they conceived their child in snowed-in Lewis northwest Washington. They were on location, shooting the 1935 film “The Call of the Wild,” fictional lovers in front of the camera and actual lovers outside its range. Lewis, a former actress who died Friday at 76, was 31 before she discerned the scope of the falsehoods that cast her, a daughter of Hollywood royalty, into what she later described as a Cinderella-like childhood. Young finally unpacked the story in 1966 in a tearful confession at her sprawling home in Palm Springs, Calif. Young was 22 and unmarried when she and Gable, 34 and married to Maria Langham, had their brief affair. She spent most of her pregnancy in Europe to avoid gossip. Lewis was born Nov. 6, 1935, in a rented house in Venice, Calif. See Lewis / A4
At home, India does its own outsourcing By Vikas Bajaj New York Times News Service
NEW DELHI — Every three months, India’s prime minister, Manmohan Singh, meets with a special panel assigned an ambitious task: to figure out how to produce 500 million skilled workers over the next two decades. The panel is a cross section of India’s elite, including the education minister, the finance minister and the former chief executive of the biggest software outsourcing company. Then there is a more curious choice: Manish Sabharwal.
Sabharwal runs TeamLease, an agency that has created thousands of jobs by fielding temporary workers for companies in India that want to expand their workforce while skirting India’s stringent labor laws, which businesses say discourage the hiring of permanent employees. Many labor leaders and left-leaning politicians accuse him of running the nation’s largest illegal business. He does not completely disagree. “We should not exist,” Sabharwal, a 40-year-old graduate of the University of
Pennsylvania, said about his company. “The genius of India is to allow us to exist.” What Sabharwal calls “genius” others would call dysfunction, or at the very least, an elaborate workaround, or temporary fix. India is known as a prime innovator of outsourcing for foreign companies, which take advantage of its cheap, English-speaking labor force. Less well known is the extent to which Indian companies outsource their own jobs within their own country. See India / A4
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Instructor Shaistha Anjum, right, hands a marker to a student during a TeamLease class at Karnataka Employment Center in Bangalore, India. TeamLease connects Indian companies with temporary workers while skirting India’s stringent labor laws.