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At first, the school board reacted to the complaints by saying parents could have their children excused from the class when the new textbooks were being used or discussed.

Southern California’s U.S. attorney for the next five days excused himself and went back to work at his stand-up desk.

He excused himself from the meeting and went out on a balcony, where he spotted a fire burning in roughly the same spot where the conflagration had been a week earlier.

The Lakers called the excused absence “personal reasons,” leading to speculation about the nature and duration of the absence.

LeBron James didn’t meet with Redick on Tuesday and didn’t practice Wednesday, an excused absence for personal reasons keeping him away from the court.