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Alas, the competent production only underscores the root of Gilroy's problem: he is writing a no-longer-fashionable form, family melodrama, and is unable -- as indeed, he was unable even in Roses, for all its acute observation -- to invest middle-class conflict with enough poetry or subtext to have it mean more than the surface struggle. This kind of storytelling is now done by TV movies of the week...
...super-user's power is indeed enormous. That's why many computer hackers are willing to invest tons of time in getting on some system as the super-user. Fortunately there have been no reports of successful attempts at breaking into the super-user account at Harvard, as those running the system take constant measures to prevent and foil any attempts to do harm...
...ethical problems of the 20th century by quoting a passage of Holy Scripture, and I read the Bible every day," says liberal Episcopal Bishop John Spong of Newark, New Jersey, who used to deliver newspapers to the Graham farm as a boy in North Carolina. "I wouldn't invest a book that was written between 1000 B.C. and A.D. 150 with that kind of moral authority." Graham, for his part, wouldn't think of doing otherwise...
...with one of the big-time boxing promoters like Don King or Bob Arum, he had to pay expenses for Bowe's fights out of his own pocket. By the time the Holyfield fight came around, Newman had exhausted his savings, sold his BMW and borrowed from friends to invest more than $300,000 in his fighter. Those days of debt are gone. This month, construction will begin on the $6.6 million house Bowe is building in Fort Washington, Maryland, where he moved 2 1/2 years ago. The ( 32,000-sq.-ft. mansion includes six bedrooms, a 25-seat movie...
...sheer convenience of mutual funds makes them attractive to almost anyone. "If you have $100,000 to invest, it's not easy to track it closely every day," says Barb Wiener, a homemaker in Irvine, California, who uses a computer to manage her family's finances. "You choose a couple of mutual funds, and you only have to look two or three places to keep track of how well you're doing." All told, 1 in 4 Americans owns mutual funds directly or through group plans; half the families have incomes of less than $50,000, making funds the primary...