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...which the mother is joins her husband and sons in the battle of recriminations, accusations, and criticism. The Tyrone family suffers not only because of their mother's inabilityto show love, but because of her all too lucid ability to target and wound them. She is hardly the harmless, mad Ophelia to which Jamie ironically compares her. Mary hands out venom, not posies...
...systems work? That depends, experts say, on what you want them to do. "Not every product does everything," says Nancy Culotta of Michigan's NSF International, an Ann Arbor-based industry watchdog group. Some filtering systems, she notes, merely improve the water's taste by getting rid of relatively harmless inorganic chemicals like sulfur or chlorine. Others do a creditable job of removing lead but aren't designed to purify water tainted by bacteria or other pathogens. And many of the most popular systems need to have their filters frequently replaced, or owners will wind up running their tap water...
...rehearsing the "Brahms Requiem" with the Radcliffe Choral Society, the Harvard Glee Club and the BSO; hanging out with some fairly pretentious literary types (among whom I include myself) in Eliot House getting high--I kid you not--on conversation and strong tea made in a samovar; attending a harmless little riot on Garden Street following an alleged robbery by Harvard boys on Radcliffe's dorms; helping to found Pro Tem, which was, as its Latin announced, an interim war-time magazine. Our advisor was Mark Schorer, then teaching English at Harvard...
There were also scenes that make Hitchcock movies look harmless. One player refused to go out into the field, making a path to the Mister Softee ice cream truck instead; he has since left the team. In another game, we yielded five runs in the last inning when we had a five-run lead, before losing in extra innings...
...GULF-WAR SYNDROME could have been caused by three ordinarily harmless doses of chemicals that, when combined, produce neurological damage, research on chickens suggests. The soldiers took anti-nerve gas pills that may have limited their bodies' ability to withstand certain pesticides they applied to their skin and clothes...