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...Princeton after taking Penn to overtime the night before. The back-end game this time was much more competitive.“It’s hard to take something from a loss, but the Palestra is a tough place to play and I think we handled it well, except for that stretch in the second half when we let it get away,” Goffredo said. “We showed poise both nights, so I think definitely, with four of our last six on the road, that is something we can be happy about...
...going to ruin anything by detailing Coyne's sufferings any further, except to say that they're suitably vicious and cathartic. A lot of horror writers wind up revealing a sentimental streak in the end, but if Hill has one he keeps it well in check. This is, ultimately, a book about fathers and sons: Coyne must come to terms with his abusive father, and with the avenging ghost, who is the father of another key character. It's an appropriate enough theme for Hill, because every artist has to work in the shadow of his or her father...
...because the marriage is troubled, according to Robert Bernstein, a press officer with the Census Bureau. Instead, they live in different places because of, say, a temporary work assignment such as military deployment. The paper also counts widows as women living without their husbands. Right. They're dead. Except for the infinitesimal number who killed their spouses, these women didn't give up on matrimony...
...federal law made them harder to pursue. After peaking in 1998, the number of such suits declined through last year. Bloomberg and Schumer have helpfully pointed out that settlements in shareholder suits have "skyrocketed" from $150 million in 1980 to $9.6 billion in 2005, which sounds impressive, except that most of the $9.6 billion came from the WorldCom settlement of $6.1 billion and nine other settlements of $100 million or more each...
...20th century British intellectual bohemians for whom this book is named). “American Bloomsbury” feels wedged between genres, stuck in limbo between educated reading and fluff. Cheever’s desire to make the Transcendentalists seem cool to a younger generation would have worked, except that she underestimated the intelligence of her intended audience. Anyone who might be interested in learning about these influential American authors—“the mothers and fathers of our literature,” as Cheever puts it—would be better served by simply looking them...