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...Admission to the club can be dicey for the club’s small membership. “The first criterion is that the man be a jolly fellow,” says Greenway, “you don’t have to be a captain of industry.” The club that counted John F. Kennedy ’40 and Eliott Richardson ’41 among its members, now still attract some of the most vibrant intellectuals of the city. New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis ‘48, author James Carroll, a substantial...
...DIVA Celine Dion sued the National Enquirer for $20 million last week after it falsely reported the singer was pregnant with twins. She's won before against French and Canadian papers, but taking on U.S. tabloids can be dicey...
That's the dicey part. Economic turmoil could resurface for any number of reasons. Rising interest rates in the U.S. could slow American demand for goods produced in emerging nations, stifling the recovery. And Asia could collapse again on its own, perhaps misreading this year's higher stock prices as a sign of economic health when the buoyant markets really are just the result of bargain hunting by a lot of speculators. Already there is evidence that Thailand, the first Asian domino to fall two years ago, is ready to declare victory and backpedal on key promised banking and other...
Privacy can be as dicey an issue within the household as it is out on the Web itself. There are thousands of families in which reading the kids' e-mail, monitoring their chats and tracking their Web travels is a solemn parental obligation. "I have every right to read their e-mail," says Bruce Cohen, a Reno, Nev., father of two. "Legally, I'm responsible for them until they're 18." Yet many others believe that invading an e-mail file is no different from opening a pen-and-paper diary that your daughter keeps under lock...
...there are also grace notes, as in how time and communication can resolve dicey situations. At first Kim Felder, a California family recruiter for adoptions with one biological child, encountered what she perceived as resistance from her parents to her intention to adopt transracially. She and her husband Carl decided to go ahead with the adoption and limit contact with Kim's parents. The following day, her parents explained that they were reacting to the prejudice they had faced as Italian immigrants--an experience they didn't want for their daughter. "They weren't prejudiced--they wanted to protect...