brief remarks I shall be drawing on the key findings of this project and their policy implications.

In November 1999, Florida fishermen found the six-year old Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez drifting at sea off the coast of Florida. The boat carrying Elian, his mother, and eleven others from Cuba had capsized two days earlier. The Immigration and Naturalization Service (“INS”) took custody of Elian and then paroled him into the custody of his Miami uncle, Lazaro Gonzalez. Lazaro sought political asylum on Elian’s behalf, but Elian’s Cuban father represented that he wanted the application withdrawn. The INS eventually determined that the father, not the uncle, had the exclusive rights to control the asylum application. Because Lazaro’s control over Elian extended only to the extent granted by the INS parole, Lazaro filed an action in a Florida state court seeking temporary custody over the child. Family law is at the core of the states ’ reserved powers. Supreme Court jurisprudence suggests that Congress lacks the authority to regulate many aspects of family law, including the law of custody. 1 Moreover, nothing in the federal immigration statutes or regulations speaks to the validity of state power to award custody over an unaccompanied minor alien. Nonetheless, the Florida court had little difficulty in concluding that federal immigration law preempted Lazaro’s state law custody action. The essence of the court’s reasoning was as follows: “While

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It is known that a theory in S5-epistemic logic with several agents may have numer-ous models. This is because each such model specifies also what an agent knows about infinite intersections of events, while the expressive power of the logic is limited to finite conjunctions of formulas. We show that this asymmetry between syntax and semantics persists also when infinite conjunctions (up to some given cardinality) are permitted in the language. We develop a strengthened S5-axiomatic system for such infinitary logics, and prove a strong completeness theorem for them. Then we show that in every such logic there is always a theory with more than one model. I am grateful to Dov Samet for fruitful discussions. 95 It is well established that models for the ordinary propositional calculus are essen-tially unique. A model is a set of states, where each formula in the language is associated with the set of states where it holds, such that conjunction of formulas corresponds to

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