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When he settled for good, it was in Samoa, in a grand plantation house designed for large-scale entertaining. He wrote steadily, made more and more money, and happily or resignedly spent all of it keeping his deadbeat in-laws afloat. He died at 44, in 1894, having written his own requiem: "Under the wide and starry sky/ Dig the grave and let me lie/ Glad did I live and gladly die ..." McLynn tells his story with grace and skill, and only a dull reader will finish this biography without heading for the library to search out a complete edition...
...will attend the high-level meeting of Congress members and governors.TIME Washington correspondent Ann Blackmansays Clinton staffers are promising no proposals from the meeting. Instead, she says, Clinton will probably point to the summit later to claim bipartisan support for the two sides' common goals: a work requirement, making deadbeat dads pay child support anddiscouraging teen pregnancy...
...driver's licenses revoked. Massachusetts has made willful nonpayment a felony punishable by as much as a five-year term in prison. Maine's new welfare law, which threatens to take away the professional and driver's licenses of parents who fall behind on child-support payments, is persuading deadbeat dads to fork over roughly $1 million a month...
...this problem, which is the inordinate number of out-of-wedlock births in this country" he said in an exclusive interview. Under his $9.3 billion scheme, moms now receiving aid would be forced to work after 24 months on the dole. The program would also crack down on deadbeat dads. In a Congress overloaded with legislation, welfare reform may very well be pushed through because there is bi-partisan mometum. Much of that push comes from voters. In a TIME poll, 81 percent of those surveyed supported fundamental welfare reform, even if it costs more. Clinton obviously appreciates that sentiment...
...Weld and Cellucci are bellyaching about deadbeat fathers," Fenton said. "They should think about deadbeat lawyers and deadbeat judges...