Word: balm
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Last week, when a North Carolina woman successfully sued her husband's lover for wrecking their marriage, it gave the current national recalculation of the costs of divorce a new bottom line. Lawyers have a word for it. They call these "heart-balm" cases, the heart being the injured party, the balm in this case a cool, soothing $1 million...
While the verdict may have come as balm to the hearts of desperate summer talk-show hosts, spurned spouses and anti-divorce activists, it's unlikely to start a trend. The vast majority of states that have rejected such suits aren't likely to start allowing them again, says Professor Dan Subotnik of Touro Law Center in New York. As for Dorothy's sweet revenge, the new Mrs. Hutelmyer claims to feel no rancor. "I feel sorry for her," she says. "Until she can acknowledge that she shares in the responsibility of the breakdown of that marriage, she can never...
This year's National Household Survey on Drug Abuse should be a balm for many a baby boomer's conscience. For the first time since 1992, illicit drug use among the tear-jerkingly precious 12- to 17-year-old age group has declined, dropping slightly to 9 percent from 10.9 percent in 1995 after three years of sharp increases...
...Rosenblatt's advice to his son. In a society creaking under the weight of the almighty dollar as the ultimate symbol of "worthship," in which the emphasis lies on aggrandizing and glorifying the whole at the expense of individual self-realization and contentment, Rosenblatt's words were a healing balm of inspiration. His son may look back one day and realize, if he has not already, that his father possesses what is arguably the most noble of human traits: the courage of his own convictions. Would that every graduate could be so fortunate as to be given these fine words...
...wooden kitchen chair with casters, a great cape hiding the tiny wheels from all but the most observant visitor--captures perfectly Roosevelt's cloaking of his disability. At a time when our politicians are "stricken with self-pity and given to sniveling" (to quote Mary McGrory), what a balm is Roosevelt's attitude of defiant and dignified denial...