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...permitted in some states. For the lawyer who decides to part from a client, says Hofstra Law Professor Monroe Freedman, "the point of no return is when you are so close to trial that the judge is not going to grant a motion to withdraw." That was Rubin's plight when, on the eve of Sanborn's trial, he learned what he calls a "new version of what happened...
...suburbs, remains a cornerstone of South Africa's policy. The government's harsh new controls on the domestic and foreign press, adopted since State President P.W. Botha declared a nationwide state of emergency on June 12, have further impaired the whites' vision and suppressed any struggling sensitivity to the plight of the country's 24 million blacks...
...willing to confront the topic of the underclass and think it could work to their political advantage. "If we approach the social question correctly," Cuomo noted, "we will seize the opportunity Reagan has given us." A common theme was that the Democrats must seek effective ways to improve the plight of the poor while not clinging to expensive programs that have not proved helpful. "What worked in 1966 may not work in 1986," said Pennsylvania Congressman William Gray, a black who chairs the House Budget Committee. "Saying that is not liberal or conservative, Democratic or Republican, it's common sense...
Ronald Reagan's economic policies have created a period of general prosperity mixed with a worsening of the plight of the underclass. This has helped prompt a national re-examination of race and poverty, with a focus on the black-family crisis. Just last week the Census Bureau announced that more than 54% of all black children are now born to unwed mothers, compared with 18% for the population as a whole...
Defenders of the wedding bond highlighted the plight of the divorced spouse. They played upon the fears of countryfolk, especially women, stranded in economically ravaged areas, where unemployment is often well over 50%. One study cited by Alice Glenn, a breakaway member of parliament from FitzGerald's Fine Gael party, revealed that 93% of divorced women with children in the U.S. live below the poverty line. "A woman voting for divorce," Glenn often repeated, "is like a turkey voting for Christmas...