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This fall, after President Clinton signed the welfare reform bill ending the guarantee of cash assistance to many of the nation's poorest children, Mary Jo Bane, assistant secretary for families and children at the department of health and human services (HHS) and a former Weiner professor of social policy, abruptly submitted her resignation...
...mail message sent to colleagues announcing her decision, Bane said the welfare bill had "led me to conclude that I can not continue to serve" as assistant secretary...
David T. Ellwood '75, Bane's colleague at both Harvard and HHS, left the Clinton Administration to become academic dean of the Kennedy School prior to passage of the bill...
Although Ellwood did not resign over political issues, he shares Bane's concerns...
...main characters the ironic distance their actions seem to require. This triumph of the heart over the head is a weakness concealing a strength. For The Laws of Our Fathers gathers considerable emotional power toward the end. The funeral of Seth's father, a Holocaust survivor and once the bane of his rebellious son's existence, calls together a number of the novel's main characters plus a cross-section of Kindle County, old and young, black and white. The trial by now has been forgotten, although some of its secrets will be forthcoming. But for a moment, Turow bestows...