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...WEDDING-BELL BLUES: Marriage is a raw deal for women, says Susan Maushart, the author of "Wifework: What Marriage Really Means for Women" (Bloomsbury; March). According to Maushart, whether wives are employed or not, they still perform an astounding share of the physical, emotional, and organizational labor in marriage - everything from housework to "sex work." It's not an accident, she says, that women initiate three-quarters of all divorces. If family life is worth saving, she says, the job description for wives will have to be rewritten. Says blurber Pepper Schwartz, author and Ph.D., "Wifework is a welcome corrective...
...question is, are 10,000 and 2,000 new floors or old ceilings? Wednesday's steady bell-to-bell rally, which left the Dow up another 220 points to 10,114 and the NASADAQ up 83 points to 2046, was impressive in that it wasn't tied to any earth-shattering piece of good news. Well, there was the National Association of Purchasing Management's report on the services sector - 80 percent of GDP - which showed a spike in the NAPM index to 51.3 in November from 40.6 in October. And a bunch of analysts said - surprise! - good things about...
...survey shows economics having fallen considerably behind government in student satisfaction with advising, indicated Bell Professor of Economics Jeffrey G. Williamson, who is the director of undergraduate education in the economics department...
...original track. The only reason it didn’t seem bizarre was that earlier in the evening, Frankie stepped into the crowd, joking and shaking hands while his rhythm section furiously pounded out Latin beats. The effect was truly surreal. With a radio microphone fitted into the bell of his trumpet, Frankie occasionally broke from conversation to play the melody and then resumed pressing the flesh. Couple this spectacle with Frankie playing from behind the audience while his sound flowed from the speakers in front, and the result was something disorienting (but ultimately welcome). Jazz is already...
...MARTIN S. BELL...