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...These gatherings change so little year to year because the holidays are a time for reminiscences, not for moving ahead. We save our forward momentum for December 31st. No matter how busy everyone is, there?s always time to review past tribal traumas, including but not limited to the time Aunt Edna mistakenly included a raw egg in her gravy and everyone was vomiting for days. Ancient customs reemerge the moment you walk through your parents' familiar front door. You and your little brother are both grownups now, but you still can't stand the way he refuses to rinse...
...When Solomon had his first breakdown six years ago, he was a successful novelist, from a close-knit family, with a wide circle of friends. But shortly before his 31st birthday, "hell came to pay me a surprise visit." What followed is the hard stuff of severe depression. "My whole system seemed to be caving in," he writes. On his way home from the grocery store, he loses control of his bowels and soils himself. Over the following weeks, he becomes near-catatonic, unable to move, talk, eat or sleep. Aware of the ridiculousness of his situation, he nonetheless cannot...
...used to, anyway. Tuesday, American Greetings Corp., one of the nation's largest card companies, posted a net loss of $80 million, or 15 percent, for the quarter ending May 31st. The card giant blames its downturn on the success of low-cost competition, like cut-rate brands, e-cards and new web sites that will sign and send personalized cards to anyone you choose...
...McLoon, a Minnesota native who anchored the nordic team in her first year of collegiate competition, finished 29th in the 5K at Nationals-ninth among Eastern skiiers-and 31st...
Freshman Rassan Grant represented Harvard in the breaststroke events, tying with senior Bryson Tan of Eastern Michigan to place 18th in the 100 breast-both swimmers clocked 54.91. Grant, who holds both the 100- and 200- breaststroke school records, placed 31st...