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Damage is the story of one man's obsession that eventually destroys his family and his life. The main character, who remains unnamed, is a respectable English doctor and politician, ostensibly a good father and husband. His bourgeois bliss comes to an abrupt end when Anna Barton, the fiancee of his son Martyn, enters our hero's life...
...comes by his stiff upper lip naturally. In his early 50s, he has been a successful physician, and is now a Tory M.P. on the way up. He has a beautiful wife, two talented children; he has, he confesses, "never faced a serious moral dilemma." Then he meets Anna Barton, his son Martyn's new girlfriend: "Just for a moment I had met my sort, another of my species." So has she, evidently, because before long the two are tearing at each other's clothes on a floor in Anna's London house...
...Record: Princeton guard Sean Jackson established a new Ivy League record for three-pointers made in a season last week. Jackson eclipsed the previous high, 51, set by Dartmouth's Jim Barton in the 1987-88 season, with his first three-pointer of the second half in the Tigers's 79-64 defeat over Harvard last Friday...
While Japanese investment in foreign properties has slowed dramatically, the country's affinity remains high for golf courses and other resorts. "They think we're the best in the world in golf communities," says Landmark's chairman, Gerald Barton, who will run the properties...
...Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation helped fuel the comeback by pumping in $5 billion to recapitalize three major banks, while two others were shored up by acquisition. "Houston deflated so sharply there was nowhere to go but up," says Barton Smith, a University of Houston economist. Low-energy prices forced the oil industry to reduce its reliance on such traditional businesses as exploration and production, while investing more heavily in refining and petrochemical manufacturing, which can earn greater profits...