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...1920s, as Cheever reached his teens, the shoe business was tanking, and his father was increasingly drunk and adrift. To make ends meet, his mother opened a gift shop that Cheever would describe as "an abysmal humiliation," at least for him. The big house would be lost anyway; his mother would shed her feckless husband and eventually drink herself to death - a motif in the family story...
...longer worth much. The buildings are half empty or unfinished and tenants are leaving, and, in many cases, defaulting on their leases. Lawsuits to get payment of those obligations are long and expensive. As often as not, the former tenant could not afford to pay a judgment anyway. (Read "Four Steps to Ending the Foreclosure Crisis...
...explaining his own story. “Yeah, sometimes I had problems with self-control,” Genie observes as he pulls up his pants. It would seem to the reader that Fuerst elucidates this point sufficiently without the need for Genie’s own exposition. Anyway, would 12-year-old Genie, shorts still around his ankles, realistically be able to snap back into a state of such lucid observance and proceed to comment objectively on his anger issues? In addition to its over-telling, the passage points to a sort of incestuous tension that is hardly subtle...
...crosses over into a land few rappers ever cared to go to. No, not the rock world. High school. But Lil’ Wayne has the skills to survive in his preppy environment. Well, presuming the face tats don’t freak anyone out anyway. He plays the guitar—probably about as well as that douche you hated who slept with your girlfriend. Lil’ Wayne fearlessly flouts convention by playing only chords and notes that spare him the inconvenience of hand movement, most apparent on his bold three-note solo. But on the bright side...
...measure of the importance of cricket to India that the IPL's request to be provided additional security during the time of general elections was not only made but also entertained. The joke in India is that more people will be watching cricket than will be casting their votes anyway...