Sarah Waters, the author of The Little Stranger, was not there because of illness, but the reason for Coetzee's absence was far more predictable: he just does not do this sort of thing.
Falcao's absence drew far more attention and the mind goes back to an audience with Van Gaal last September when he could be heard eulogising about the player's first day in training.
The trend in sickness absence from 1987 to 2009 showed a relatively large variation in sickness absence rates in Norway (from approximately 2.5% to 4%) compared to Denmark, where sickness absence rates were far more stable (from approximately 1.6% to 1.9%) [ 7, 9, 10].
Claude, inevitably, would like his brother's absence to be far more permanent.
The shadows of Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya will continue to bedevil proponents of intervention everywhere — as will its glaring absence in the far more strategically significant case of Syria.
Whatever comes of the website, Julian Assange or Bradley Manning does not negate the fact that, in the absence of a far more heavily restricted internet, we live in a WikiLeakable world.
But this year's projected growth would be only 1.2 percentage points higher than the budgeted increase in overall central government spending, a far narrower gap than in previous years.In the absence of a far more detailed breakdown of China's military budget, the Americans will not be very impressed.
Political freedom, strong social networks and an absence of corruption are far more important.
While addressing truancy is an important step, Michigan schools force far more absences through their use of zero-tolerance "get tough" policies.
Although this finding implied an extraordinarily high national mortality rate, it also forced researchers to document far more absences of death than actual deaths.
