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Clinton also has made several reforms carrying out his "responsibility" theme: parents who do not attend parent-teacher meetings are fined $50 for each one missed, and students who drop out of school can have their drivers' license suspended (1,000 have been since 1989). Furthermore, the Governor has implemented a welfare-reform plan, requiring able-bodied recipients to undergo training or schooling, and imposing penalties if they do not. So far, the results are inconclusive, but critics say the plan has been sabotaged by the state's sluggish welfare bureaucracy...
...surprising that this loss of childhood would catch up with her and that at fortysomething a parent substitute would come along in the guise of a knight in shining sedan, "someone," she writes, "I couldn't take care of." Overscheduled women everywhere will recognize themselves in her surrender to a decision-free zone of well-appointed houses and someone to clean them. "I found this very restful," she writes of the period. "I was just so . . . tired...
Writing of how he cared for his dying father, Roth gives us that rarest of reads: a narrative of piercing clarity and emotional impact about one of life's crucial events. The son finds himself a parent to his own father, a stubborn 86-year-old who puts up a gallant fight against the brain tumor that daily robs him of his strength and dignity. In Herman Roth, the novelist discovers the source of his own tenacious character. There are no literary feints or false notes here, only the steady, frank voice of a writer who has mastered his craft...
Writing of how he cared for his dying father, Roth gives us that rarest of reads: a narrative of piercing clarity and emotional impact about one of life's crucial events. The son finds himself a parent to his own father, a stubborn 86-year-old who puts up a gallant fight against the brain tumor that daily robs him of his strength and dignity. In Herman Roth, the novelist discovers the source of his own tenacious character. There are no literary feints or false notes here, only the steady, frank voice of a writer who has mastered his craft...
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