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Murray Abramowitz (Alan Arkin), trapped in dreams of lost prosperity, urges his kids to think of themselves as nomads, adventurers wresting their livelihood from a harsh yet enticing landscape. His daughter Vivian (Natasha Lyonne)--15 and squirmy with all the anxieties, social and sexual, of her age group--knows better. The swell school district isn't worth what living in the slums of Beverly Hills entails: decamping from sleazy apartments at night to avoid the rent, taking in a crazy cousin (Marisa Tomei) in hopes her father will support the Abramowitzes in a style to which they're unaccustomed. There...
Need some cheap advice from a market expert? Judging by the just disclosed portfolio of Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, short-term T bills are the way to go. Though Greenspan's choices reflect his desire to "avoid any conflicts of interest" and "have nothing to do with the market," it's no surprise that the notorious skeptic would invest in bonds. Caution, though, doesn't come cheap; in 1997 one-year T bills had a 6.2% return, while the S&P 500 rose...
...hard to determine the reasons--other than revenge--for sentencing Mitchell and Drew to several years of this. "Punishment won't do anything," says Alan Kazdin, chairman of Yale's psychology department. "Punishment never teaches what to do, [and only] sometimes what not to do." Some very young kids don't even understand they're being punished. "Even in jail, kids want their candy bars, their pillows and pajamas," says lawyer Mones. "They wonder where their cheeseburgers are." It's also crucial to realize these kids will get out someday. "The important thing to do is not to trash these...
...According to detectives' court testimony, Ryan joined E. to ride bikes around Paul Robeson High School and instead wound up in an alley where R. was waiting. He began throwing rocks, striking her in the back of the head, knocking her off her bike, apparently leaving her unconscious. Detective Alan Nathaniel testified that the seven-year-old confessed to moving her bicycle to a nearby wooded area and dragging Ryan there as well...
Barnicle has taken heat before. The late Chicago columnist Mike Royko twice accused him of plagiarism; in another incident the Globe settled for $75,000 after lawyer Alan Dershowitz charged that Barnicle had attributed a phony quote to him. So when Smith was fired, many thought Barnicle should go with her. Last week Dershowitz was feeling vindicated: "It was the most open secret in all of Boston that Barnicle was a fiction writer." Though Barnicle's popularity could get him employed elsewhere, he says he doesn't want to go anywhere else. "If they end up firing me, jeez...