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The national spotlight revealed Lisa Hathaway (pictured on this page) as a New Age mother who had been schooling her children at home. In September she was notified by the La Honda-Pescadero, California, school district that she had to enroll her son Joshua, 9, in school in order to comply with state law. She reluctantly agreed to do so, saying, "I'm doing it to be legal and doing it as a temporary measure until I get the law changed. I happen to value education. I do not value school in any way." Hathaway, who is writing a book about Jessica, was also upset when President Clinton signed a bill last October that prohibits people without a valid license (you must be at least 17) from flying to set records. "This bill has one result," Hathaway wrote in a letter faxed to the President. "It removes a freedom from a group of people we call children."
BACK IN OHIO
One of the endearing things--perhaps the only endearing thing--about the scandal that ended consultant Dick Morris' career as Bill Clinton's election-year Svengali is the fact that the prostitute who allegedly rode Morris around his Jefferson Hotel suite was more of a working woman than a working girl. Now 37, Sherry Rowlands may have represented fantasy to Morris, but the more charitable sectors of the public could imagine her as just another middle-aged single gal trying to make ends meet.
Her life continues to seem a good deal more earthbound than her apparently unsinkable ex-client's. For several months Rowlands has been living in Fairborn, Ohio, helping her older sister care for their mother, who is dying of liver cancer. Rowlands is also working on a book proposal about women who are abused by men in power. "You know there is something strange about this person," she says of Morris, "but he has something you really need." She's not the only one he affects that way: it was reported last week that Rudolph Giuliani briefly flirted with Morris about helping run the New York City mayor's 1997 re-election campaign.
SHE VOTED FOR DOLE
Last October, TIME used Lori Lucas, a single mother in Shrewsbury, Missouri, to personify the suburban swing voter courted by all parties in this year's presidential election. Lucas, like many fellow moms, was undecided when she appeared on our cover. Afterward, she began researching the candidates at the local library and decided against Bill Clinton because of the character issue. Says she: "I think he is crooked, more so than I'm willing to put up with." (She was somewhat bewildered at TIME readers who assumed that "because I smoked pot [in high school] and had a baby out of wedlock, I'm voting for Clinton.") It took her longer to decide in favor of Dole, and went with him largely because she thought him trustworthy. On exiting the voting booth, however, she suddenly wished she had pulled the lever for Ross Perot.
By this time, of course, she was no longer a typical voter. Thanks to her fame as a TIME cover subject--and her potential to become a high-profile convert--she found herself engaged in long phone conversations with the head of Dole's state campaign several nights' running. The Perot people sent her a book. The Clintonites never called.
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