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...battle against Parkinson’s disease. His struggle frustrates Enid, a Midwestern mother of three grown children striving to maintain a fantasy of proud normalcy and prosperity in her own life and in the lives of her children. The Lambert children are not exactly cooperating with that fantasy. Chip is a former professor who was fired for having an affair with a student, and now leads an increasingly desperate existence in New York City as an aspiring screenwriter. His older brother Gary is the picture of upper-middle class suburban contentment who can’t seem to ignore...
...late to make things better with the third child, even as the conditions that created the need for improvement ultimately undermine it. Denise is abruptly reminded of the correction she is experiencing when she finds herself tempted by the lips and body of her own mother. Chip is just trying to avoid total failure and stay afloat. And Enid is eternally hoping to fix the things she can’t. Everything they do and worry about are inextricably linked to their family, to their past. These are not extraordinary people, and they are not caught in extraordinary situations...
...upside is that such a tax cut goes to the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder - even those who don't make enough to pay income taxes chip in a slice of their wages for those entitlements. Those are the people who missed the boom and are getting hurt most by the bust - and, some economists say, they're the people most likely to spend the money and keep the economy above water until businesses start making capital investments again...
...Overseas, world markets went on churning - and were down. In London, the FTSE 100 index of British blue chip shares closed down 5.7 percent from Monday's close, with British Airways stock - a bad day for airlines - dropping 21 percent. In Germany, the DAX plummeted as much as 11.4 percent lower before recovering somewhat to close the day down 8.5 percent. The Paris Stock Exchange's CAC 40 index tumbled 7.4 percent; the Mib30 index in Milan finished the day at its lowest closing level since Oct. 17, 1998 - down 7.7 percent...
Harvard had many other chances to score among its 19 shots and nine penalty corners, coming close to scoring again and again on a goal called back, a reverse chip that almost tied the game, and several drives that passed just wide with and without goalies in goal...