Bashar Assad, according to his father's authorized biographer, the English journalist Patrick Seale, "would not deviate from his father's legacy".
Then there was the daughter, also much loved, whose life was permanently destroyed by a botched, if well-intentioned, lobotomy that her father had authorized.
Prosecutors said the grand jury had reached the same conclusion as the police after reviewing the evidence: The father was authorized to use deadly force to protect his daughter.
Doblin provided a copy of the letter to me; Hofmann's son, Andreas Hofmann, executor of his father's estate, authorized its publication.
Sciacca, a new administrator at Estancia, told the father he wasn't authorized to pick up his daughter and asked him to leave campus.
The issue gained national attention in June 2013, when a village council in Nasik, three hours by road from Mumbai, authorized a father to strangle his pregnant teenage daughter to death in order to lift a boycott imposed on the family because she had married outside the caste.
He accused the president of coordinating foreign policy with a totalitarian regime, of ignoring peaceful means of reuniting the boy with his father, and of authorizing a "gross overreaction" by armed immigration officials who grabbed the boy in a predawn raid Saturday.
Both Moreno and María were expected by their families to follow religious studies, and Moreno's father did not authorize a change.
That seems to hold despite the Elián González episode that angered most Cuban-Americans here last year when Ms. Reno agreed that the Cuban boy should be returned to his father in Cuba and then authorized federal agents to seize the boy from his Florida relatives.
Appearing on the national TV, the crown prince authorized by his father, the king, offered unconditional dialogue with opposition.
