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...giving up without a fight, Dawson enlists the reluctant Rita Harrison (Pfeiffer, an uptight personal injury lawyer), to represent him at his custody hearing. Harrison’s struggle to construct a compelling argument for Dawson, made more difficult by his continued follies, make the case appear increasingly hopeless. Yet the man’s love for Lucy is unassailable and it seems that this might be the key to getting Lucy back. Dawson’s fatherly devotion certainly makes a strong impression on Harrison, whose relationship with her own son is predictably in tatters. Soon, Harrison is fighting...
...cool in the seaside humidity. Until they moved out last year, this was how the hospital's Holocaust survivors had lived for half a century. That move was the climax of the campaign by Barak, Szor and Mark to have survivors treated as victims of trauma rather than as hopeless schizophrenics who should simply be drugged...
...however A. His illustration includes one of the key “Wake Up the Grader” phrases—“It is absurd.” What force! What gall! What fun! “Ridiculous,” “hopeless,” “nonsense,” on the one hand; “doubtless,” “obvious,” “unquestionable,” on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, antiacademic languor at this stage...
...doesn’t stand for “hopeless.” The situation with the professors of the Afro-American studies department can still be rectified. Ours is a community that prides itself on its “liberal” views and multiple avenues for dialogue. Let us practice what we preach. We entreat both parties to continue working to close what is now known simply as “the rift...
...deferential Japanese housewife is at the end of her rope. Her hopeless husband is unemployed, her once promising children are bugging on mushrooms and even the dreamy Koizumi looks likely to leave her at the economic altar. How does she respond? By taking her destiny in two petite hands and yanking?hard. Tug-of-war, the sport of ancient warriors and sadistic gym teachers, is enjoying a renaissance around the world. An Olympic sport from 1900 to 1920, there is strong sentiment to bring tugging back to the Games. That would be welcome news in bored and poor Japan, where...