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...reform bill--to the screams of the left that he is committing the worst betrayal since that of Judas Iscariot. By Executive decree he has been pursuing modest and relatively uncontroversial but worthwhile goals--requiring teenage welfare mothers to live at home, for instance, and intensifying the pursuit of deadbeat dads, who have been forced to pay 40% more money for the support of their children. From Clinton's bully pulpit these days comes an endless succession of moderate-conservative preachments: for school uniforms, teen curfews and more cops on the street; against TV violence; for gay rights but against...
...novel's honored guests. Puzo's younger heroes are fewer but conspicuous: the Don's Adonis-like grandnephew Croccifixio ("Cross") De Lena and his film-goddess girlfriend, Athena Aquitane. The book's fools and villains are ruled by passions, impulses and grotesque egos. A degenerate gambler and loudmouthed deadbeat lurches obnoxiously toward his inevitable fate. A hit man, perversely named Dante, wears gaudy Renaissance-style hats and takes too much pleasure in his work...
...House Compact Unabridged Dictionary (2,230 pages; $50) quarantines about 1,000 examples of jargon, fad words and lamentable journalese and corrals them into a separate "Addenda Section." The Addenda provides a useful glimpse into the netherworld of post-contemporary wordsmithery. Control freak is here, as are dream team, deadbeat dad, drive-by (shooting), granny dumping, latte, managed care, mosh pit, outsource (but not downsize) and wellness. Tattered cliches like reality-based, reality check and wake-up call, alas, refuse to die. Beyond the dread Addenda, Birnbaum says, the dictionary is sound and scholarly, comprising more than 315,000 entries...
...portrait being offered is stern but loving. It's of Clinton's cracking down on truants, on hoodlums who sell guns to kids, on deadbeat dads and teenage welfare moms while embracing a larger group of pro-family initiatives. In just the past two months he has been waging campaigns against teenage smoking and drug use while promoting plans to make meat safer, put more educational programming on television, give working parents more flextime and offer tax credits to pay for college tuition. Of these proposals, only the last two require action from Congress...
DENVER: Clinton, on a three-day fundraising swing through the West on Monday, pledged several measures that would put "deadbeat dads" on the legal hot seat. For one, he said he would eliminate a loophole that allows fathers who fail to pay child support to escape punishment just because they live in another state. He also announced a cooperative effort between states and the U.S. Postal Service to display "wanted" posters of delinquent parents alongside those of murderers and bank robbers. "No one should be able to escape the responsibility of bringing a child into this world," Clinton said. Coupled...