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...become president of the Fortune Group, overseeing the business affairs of our kid-brother business magazine, FORTUNE, and its kid brother, YOUR COMPANY. Jack and some part of the rest of the world view this as an elevation. I'm free to disagree. But then, Jack's my friend. He is going on to these so-called greener pastures because of the terrific job he's done here at TIME. He's increased ad pages and revenues and helped the business reach record levels of profitability. And we thank him for that...
...mess, the kind who bumps along falling into bed with losers and who drinks water "only in the form of melted ice in my drinks." A ghostwriter for a Jackie Collins-ish author, Claudia is trying to exit her protracted adolescence and win the love of her best friend, a lawyer, William, who might want to keep things platonic. Not much happens in this novel (and some of what does happens a bit too randomly), but Claudia is endearing because she remains appreciative of her own grittiness. She avoids coming off as Bridget can: like an unfunny stand-up comic...
...stopped eating and slipped into a depression. A friend had to care for her son. Eventually friends found her a psychiatrist willing to provide free therapy and medication. Since January she has been working as a clerk in a government-sponsored public works program, which pays for food and the tiny, unheated basement apartment she moved into after being laid off. But Kim doesn't know what she and her son will do when the money from her subsidized program runs...
...been sent from Ohio to Fort Ellsworth in Virginia, not far from where she now sits. Seif landed in the hospital with an illness called camp fever; he never returned to his regiment. "When he came home, he looked like a dead boy," declared the affidavit of an Ohio friend. For years after the war, Seif wrote to Washington requesting a pension increase, complaining of neuralgia, lumbago, catarrh, headaches and heart trouble. By 1927, the year he died, Seif was receiving $90 a month, an amount granted, according to notes from a nameless bureaucrat, because he was blind and totally...
FINDING YOUR ROOTS: HOW TO TRACE YOUR ANCESTORS AT HOME AND ABROAD by Jeane Eddy Westin (Tarcher/Putnam). Westin's updated book is the best friend a new family historian can have. Well organized and well researched, Finding Your Roots shows the reader how to make genealogy fun rather than drudgery--how to stay organized, the secret of keeping yourself from feeling as if you're up a family tree rather than building...