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...another singles win, boosting the Crimson’s final score to 5-2. HARVARD 4, SACRAMENTO STATE 3 In the match against No. 37 Sacramento State (1-2) yesterday, Harvard again swept all three doubles matches. Wang and Schnitter quickly defeated Luba Schifris and Karina Jarlkaganova, 8-1. O’Riain, returning from her injury, and Anderson then secured the doubles point with a win over Margarita Karnaukhova and Anastassia Lyssenko, 9-8 (2). The team of Mukundan and Chu then topped Cecilia Helland and Svetlana Pimenova, 8-6. In singles, Anderson quickly added to Harvard?...
...LUBA MELTZER...
...Luba loved her job. as a systems analyst for a large software company in Silicon Valley, she was part of a team of men and women who developed computer programs. The pressure was intense: Luba worked 12-hour days, plus weekends on her laptop. But the middle-aged wife and mother found the work fascinating. She liked her colleagues and became deeply involved in their lives. After three years, however, Luba was suddenly reassigned to another group. Although the transfer involved more pay and responsibility, she felt she had been ripped away from a life she cherished. She suffered shortness...
...Luba (not her real name) is one of nearly 200 patients whom psychologist Ilene Philipson has treated for overinvestment in work and whose experiences inform Philipson's provocative new book, Married to the Job: Why We Live to Work and What We Can Do About It. A resident of Oakland, Calif., Philipson, 52, describes how Americans' love affair with work might be great for corporate productivity but can have terrible personal consequences. Her book is well timed, with millions of Americans newly laid off and millions more working harder than ever to pick up the slack. "In giving...
...Binding chapbooks together into one "graphic novel" is where the real money is for many publishers, so there are lots of them. Fantagraphics has got Dan Clowes' "20th Century Eightball" (September), collecting whatever has never been collected before from his "Eightball" series; Gilbert Hernandez' "Luba in America Book 1," collecting the first five issues of "Luba" (September); and Joe Sacco's "Palestine" (September), which used to be two volumes of this war reporter's groundbreaking work. Also look out for Debbie Dreschler's wonderful coming-of-age story, "Summer of Love," which reprints the "Nowhere" series by Drawn and Quarterly...