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Rajballie was aided by Chapman, who, although absent from the field with an injury last season, slid into the line-up with ease. Chapman was listed at back, but he was just as often seen in the frontfield, contributing to Harvard's attack...
...mothers, he advocates the same agenda of four programs, combined with a strictly-enforced system of child assistance that would provide security for poor children and more choices for their mothers. Ellwood cites damning numbers about that lack of child support currently paid in the U.S. and suggests that absent fathers be forced to accept some responsibility--by paying around 30 percent of their income for child support--for their families...
While the attorneys may be acting more like thespians, real actors are beginning to spice up courtroom drama. U.S. Judge John Grady, chief of the federal district courts in Chicago, recently allowed actors to read depositions taken from absent witnesses in a securities case. Such depositions, usually read in a deadly drone by court reporters or law-firm secretaries, often contain important evidence but can put juries to sleep. One of the attorneys objected that an actor was hamming it up, but Judge Grady pronounced himself delighted by the lively break from what is typically the "dullest part...
...Grand Old Party will try to wrap itself in the grand old flag. Republicans will talk a lot about patriotism and family values and "moral strength". They'll also pander to their special interest groups: fundamentalist christians, Right-to-Lifers and big business. Absent this year will be Ed Meese and the Teamster's union...
...academic conference (especially if its venue is warm and equipped with Jacuzzis). He draws the line only at concocting advertising copy, and offers one ironclad rule: form a partnership with a first-class Writer's Wife. His own, he notes, "looks after reality for me while I am absent from it, which I am most of the time...