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...Absent from the great thanksgiving will be the voices of the 5.5 million American children under 12 who regularly skip meals, a figure amounting to one-eighth of the country's child population. The voices of the homeless, numbering between 350,000 and 3 million nationwide, will also be unheard...
...Cabinet disputes, but also because his advisers often had to rely on the President's body language as a code for intentions Reagan refused to articulate. The supporting cast speaks candidly in these pages. Jeane Kirkpatrick recalls an agonizing conflict over policy toward Nicaragua, and Reagan's role: "Just absent. Just not there...
With only six of the usual seven golfers teeing off--freshman Lou Body, who is number one or two on the team, was absent--the Crimson were only able to drop a single low score. Although Dave Miller finished second with a 75, the wide range of Crimson scores allowed the steadier Amherst squad to prevail...
...fall (seniors) probably don't want it in sufficient numbers. The sophomores who probably want it aren't supposed to--they're supposed to want to be integrated into the houses and preserve the vigor of house life. (How the administrative ideal of a house with 30 to 50 absent seniors is supposed to be vigorous is left unsaid...
...going to see that wives can get along without them, and it's going to be a rude awakening for some of them." Weihl, who endured a 14-month separation in the late '80s when Gary was sent to South Korea, also knows the pitfalls of overidolizing the absent loved one: "He may have sounded like Cary Grant in his letters," she says, "but back home he can still be a slob." Charles Figley, a family therapist in Tallahassee, warns that spouses may compete for sympathy, a phenomenon he calls I-had-it-worse-itis...