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...Maddox also focused on curriculum reform, arguing that excellence in English, math and science is paramount. While teacher and parent Alice L. Turkel emphasized faculty development, incumbent David P. Maher argued that by initiating the recruiting process for teachers earlier, Cambridge schools can attract a much larger applicant pool...
Toward the end of the book, Atwood finds the spectre of death looming ever closer, though without the hope of salvation such as Mary Webster's. Part four is a series of poems written for a dying parent. In one scene, a woman tries to remember her father through a series of dream images, each proving elusive and unsatisfactory. In another scene, Shakespearean tragedy undergoes a reversal that is anything but, as a Lear figure finds himself watching terrible television in nursing home...
...custody fight, the Browns would only need to present "clear and convincing evidence" that Simpson is an unfit parent. In the wrongful-death actions that will go to court, the standard of proof is "preponderance of evidence" rather than "beyond a reasonable doubt." Also, in a civil suit only nine of the 12 jurors are needed for a favorable verdict, and Simpson could be forced to testify. Predicts Professor Vincent Blasi of Columbia University law school: "There's a considerable chance that the Goldmans and the Browns will recover, given the amount and quality of the evidence." Then again, many...
THANK YOU FOR MARGARET CARLSON'S column on the conservatives' drive to send welfare mothers into the workplace, no matter how lowly the job [PUBLIC EYE, Sept. 25]. Finally a report that illustrates the Republicans' true motives for reforming welfare: punishment for women who parent alone. Women are often on welfare because they have chosen to leave bad relationships. Many Republicans see this as an assault on their "family values" system, in which a nuclear family seems to be more important than a woman's life. In the welfare debate as a whole, the concentration of politicians on "women...
Apparently, Whitman believes that the second parent's role is of such paramount importance that we may as well give up on the family if there's only one parent around. Given his statement that children from single-parent households are more likely to end up single parents themselves, I'm surprised he didn't bother to extend this line of thinking to the no-parent household...