Word: absently
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...crisis of fatherlessness. At the root of the instability of the Black ghettos is the fact that there is not a functional patrilineal system that governs the communal life by physically maintaining order as occurs in other working class neighborhoods, regardless of race or ethnicity. When the fathers are absent, as a political fact of life in communities, disorder and chaos follow. The lack of male role models perpetuate the problem and leave women and children emotionally and physically vulnerable. For anyone who bothers to walk the unforgiving streets of the poorest black neighborhoods in any mid-sized or large...
...Ifill has interviewed virtually every African-American politician of note, tracking a generational shift away from leaders like Jesse Jackson who were schooled in the civil rights movement toward Ivy Leaguers like Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick. And while scoundrels like Detroit's disgraced former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick are almost absent, there's much here to justify her assertion that "the bench is deep" with rising political stars--and her role as their enthusiastic chronicler...
...being too harsh on his administration and talking about trying to put the squeeze on a children's hospital and on the Tribune, which was looking to sell the Cubs with state help. But does mere talk constitute a crime? "Genson can argue it was [just] talk, and absent any act, there's no crime," says Andrea Lyon, a professor of law at DePaul University and former head of the Illinois Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. "It's a First Amendment issue...
Clawing back gains absent fraud--and where there are no preset clawback agreements--is another matter. The concept is foreign to most of Wall Street. Hedge funds generally have only what you might call "claw forwards": high-water-mark provisions that prevent managers from pocketing performance fees after a loss until they've made up that loss to their investors. Investment banks, meanwhile, have for decades paid out bonuses on the basis of one year's profits and worried about the consequences later...
...back and crime is expected to rise and civilization as we know it to break down. Someone somewhere is stirring the tar and plucking the feathers for Lehman's Richard Fuld and Merrill's Stan O'Neal and of course Bernie Madoff of the $50 billion swindle, because absent any effective sanction, we're all vigilantes...