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...Henry, 47, the program's director, says that many young fathers just need help cutting through the bureaucracy: filling out forms, standing in the correct lines for public assistance and dealing with unresponsive bureaucrats. "This system encourages fathers not to be there," he says. "You have many fathers declared absent when they are actually present. People think they're just making babies and don't have any feelings attached to that act. Everyone says, 'We want you to be a responsible father,' but we give them nothing to be responsible with...
Because many Ivy League schools were absent from the sheet and some non-Ivies--Stanford and MIT--were listed, Rudenstine said the paper showed no evidence of a scheme within the Ivy League...
...Democratic Party is in a near-terminal condition. Absent any alternatives, however, I shall support Clinton," wrote Norman Birnbaum, an editorial board member of The Nation, in that magazine's convention issue...
Religion has been an important part of the process. Thomas, a onetime Catholic seminarian, and his wife Virginia regularly attend Sunday services at Truro Episcopal Church in Fairfax, Va. Unlike the Scalias, and O'Connor and her husband, they are absent from the Washington social scene. Since he joined the court, Thomas has attended only two public events, a Horatio Alger Awards dinner and a state dinner at the White House. In May he canceled an appearance at New Jersey's Seton Hall law school after he was warned of a possible demonstration against him. Remembering her own embarrassment when...
...Absent from prayer: four pence...