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Allen, on the other hand, is obliged to play a man named Scott Calvin, a hard-charging, fast-rising toy-company executive who is pressed into service as a substitute St. Nick in circumstances at once too complicated and too stupid to explain. He finds to his dismay that the job is his for all eternity (that -- Get it? -- is the Santa clause buried in some fine print he didn't get a chance to read), and he is understandably skeptical about whether taking over operations at the North Pole is a great career move. To achieve a happy resolution...
...what might be considered a fair crack at a public figure in New York City could be actionable in London. Conversely, the muzzles that are slapped on reporters covering trials in Commonwealth countries can't be placed so easily on writers living abroad, as Canadian officials learned to their dismay last year when foreign press reports of a particularly sensitive homicide case in Ontario began drifting back into Canada through the Internet...
...sounds at first like another cruel tale from the world of corporate layoffs. Young IBM personnel specialist, 36, loses his job last July in cutbacks at the troubled computer giant. In dismay over leaving IBM -- the company where both his parents spent their careers -- young man plunges into the harsh job market. But there the miraculous happens: after a flurry of interviews, he is hired by Electronic Payment Services, a start-up Delaware company that processes credit-card transactions, for substantially more than his old salary. "I never knew how marketable I was," says Peter Dychkewich, the hero of this...
...daughter agrees. Before the dean arrives, a police officer comes to my daughter door. He asks if my daughter feels safe. She tells him, "No." Soon after that, Dean Hewitt arrives, asking if she had been a police officer and what she said to him. The dean expressed dismay at what she said to the police and left former roommate to the Harvard Police Department for safekeeping. He tells her that he doesn't want her to go back on campus until the boy is arrested. My daughter and her roommate are treated with kindness, compassion and concern...
...friendship with a white co-worker, Mallory Post. When, as part of a diversity program, a black man is hired to be the new boss of the bank, Esther is overjoyed, and she even fantasizes about having an interoffice fling with him. But her happiness turns to dismay when he is accused of sexually harassing Mallory...