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According to Onie, the welfare office had overlooked the stipulation that, as long as a parent maintains "care and control" of a child, they can continue to receive AFDC...
Indeed, Harvard's highest governing board, the Corporation, recently sent letters of concern to the parent company of Shell, the Royal Dutch Petroleum and Shell Transport and Trading Company, according to Simons...
Left to his own devices, Clinton would finish in the second term what he started in the first: more family leave for parent-teacher conferences and doctor's appointments; a broader Brady Bill to deny handguns to people convicted of domestic violence; more cops on the beat. After failing to provide health insurance for all Americans, Clinton sounds intent on doing it in pieces, covering children first, then the unemployed--getting to universal coverage one patient at a time. And he has promised to repair the parts of the welfare bill he doesn't like--the exclusion of benefits...
Well, Hollywood is offering a few scraps from the Christmas table for this neglected minority audience. Jingle All the Way follows a desperate parent searching for the one toy his child hopes will be under the Christmas tree. The director is Brian Levant, who moved plenty of Flintstones merchandise with his last film hit; the star is Arnold Schwarzenegger, himself a preposterous and popular action figure. For the science nerd in all of us, there's Star Trek: First Contact, eighth in the series, second with Patrick Stewart helming the Enterprise. And if Grandma drops by for Christmas dinner...
...deal," says CHARLIE MATTHAU of directing his dad WALTER in The Grass Harp. "He'd listen to my directions. However, at any time, if so ordered, I'd put on a sweater." Such are the compromises one has to make as the offspring and the director of a star parent. Still, it can't be that horrid, since a spate of families have taken to the set together with happy results. NICK CASSAVETES wrote and directed Unhook the Stars as a "love letter" to his mom GENA ROWLANDS, and, he says, "she sent me one with her amazing performance." Meanwhile...