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On his side in support of the measure was another Republican representative, John Ensign of Nevada, who told of his own father abandoning his family, forcing Ensign's mother to support three children by working as a "change girl" in a Las Vegas casino.
One also wonders whether, if Woolf were alive today, she would join the hordes of writers abandoning fiction for the memoir.
Many of the public journalism innovations that Rosen wants newspapers to experiment with--commitment to the community, initiating "dialogues" with the citizenry, and abandoning objectivity--are practiced routinely at 100 papers in the nation's 50 top markets.
Sartre's view yields a sort of sexual Heisenberg principle: There is an inherent tension between physically abandoning yourself to another on the one hand and sexual planning on the other.
Reviewers praise Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar for abandoning his campy proclivities to make a film noir with social bite.