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Unfortunately, no breaks are available in Greenock, a depressed shipbuilding town in Scotland, where all the yards are closed. And for a kid nearing his 16th birthday, Liam has a lot of problems. His beloved mom is in jail for drug dealing. Her boyfriend and father are brutal small-time crooks trying to get Liam to induce her back into the criminal life even before her sentence is up. His refusal leads to a beating--and to dreams of revenge and rescue...
...Qaeda than how to cook a proper lamb." While she says she occasionally feels like a "blow-up doll," Lawson was never happier to have her food universe than when her husband John Diamond spent four years suffering from throat cancer. (He died in 2001; Lawson's current boyfriend is advertising mogul Charles Saatchi.) This explains, at least in part, her food hedonism. "People should stop demonizing fat," she says through bites of French fry. "Seeing food as something like medicine is a horrible idea. Life's too short...
...organizers for the union employ coercive and aggressive tactics, visiting students multiple times at their homes, in their offices, and in their labs—even after students have expressly stated that they do not want to be visited or called. If an ex-boyfriend behaved this badly he would be called a stalker, and a restraining order would be granted. When several students in a social science department complained about frequent unwanted home visits, a GESO organizer responded by saying that he could not respect their requests—because he felt his message was too important...
...pages), a comic, caustic first novel by essayist and National Public Radio regular Meghan Daum, were any less honest, her story could have ended on page 15. But Daum's bittersweet deconstruction of Lucinda's illusions reads like The Bridges of Madison County etched in acid. Lucinda acquires a boyfriend, an apathetic woodsman named Mason Clay, who--while he bears a passing resemblance to Sam Shepard and says "warsh" instead of "wash"--turns out to be both much more and much less than the man of her heartland dreams. Their disastrous romantic negotiations show us not only their own hearts...
...long distance boyfriend in New York, and looking back, she says he was yet another justification for her isolation. Lawless avoided the dining hall and ate in her room, but as she fell into a cycle of depression, she only felt worse. She says the achievements of her fellow undergraduates only compounded her insecurity...