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Although the Lowell Institute does not issue degrees, the school provides an opportunity for area residents to acquire technological skills and job training, Bruce D. Wedlock, the school's director, said at last night's meeting...
...Wedlock said that nearly all of the classes are offered during the afternoon or evening, and a large number of the 1,100 students at the school are minorities or immigrants who have had little previous education...
House Republicans backed off their controversial welfare-reform provision that would have denied cash assistance to children born to unmarried women under 18. But what G.O.P. members proposed instead--a cash bonus to states that manage to reduce out-of-wedlock births as well as abortions-hardly pleased pro-choice Democrats...
...Carter other comparisons cropped up. Though Oosterbroek was his best friend, they were, according to Nachtwey, "like the polarities of personality types. Ken was the successful photographer with the loving wife. His life was in order." Carter had bounced from romance to romance, fathering a daughter out of wedlock. In 1993 Carter headed north of the border with Silva to photograph the rebel movement in famine-stricken Sudan. To make the trip, Carter had taken a leave from the Weekly Mail and borrowed money for the air fare. Immediately after their plane ) touched down in the village of Ayod, Carter...
...that a mother can give birth, but only a father can confer full membership in the human community, i.e., "legitimacy." A child that no man has claimed -- either through marriage or later legal "legitimation" procedures -- becomes somehow less worthy and less human. In English common law, an out- of-wedlock child was filius nullius, meaning child of no one. The kid was a bastard; the mother, being single and female, counted for nothing...