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...University still plans to establish a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) agreement with the city to compensate it for some of the loss. But as long as Harvard doesn’t pay the full rate on its property, the resulting shortfall could leave Watertown in the lurch...
...spouses, who have traditionally taken this role. Sandra Timmermann, a gerontologist at MetLife's Mature Market Institute, notes that 75% of caregivers are women: "Often just as women are ready to break out with their own careers, an elderly parent's needs intervene. It leaves the marriage in the lurch...
...seem destined to be clueless about our teenagers. Here we are, entwined in this most intimate relationship with our very own children, yet teens seem to live in another world--one with nonstop Internet access and encyclopedic knowledge of song lyrics. When teens start dating, they lurch back and forth between their private agonies and joys, and mask their problems and heartaches with arguments about learner's permits and lip gloss. We parents wait up nights and cross our fingers, hoping our kids will make it to adulthood unscathed. Unfortunately, many of them...
...wreck? Scott Conlon, 31, the club bouncer, told police she called him "white trash" when he asked her to move her illegally parked car around 2 a.m. After she moved the car a few feet away, Conlon says, he heard the engine roar and turned to see the SUV lurch backward, directly at him and a line of people waiting to get into the club. When the car came to a stop, 16 people were pinned against the building's front wall. Conlon had sustained injuries to his leg, shoulder and liver. Someone opened the driver's door and Grubman...
...Still, Koizumi's critics and supporters both agree on one thing: to lurch out of its coma, Japan needs to tackle its irretrievable bank loans. Estimates vary wildly on just how much is at stake: of $3.8 trillion in total loans, banks may have to kiss goodbye to anything from $250 billion to $1.2 trillion. "To wipe out the debt," Koizumi said recently, "we must be firm...