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...Billy Lynch, a lovely, funny man (a hopeless, lifelong drunk), is dead in middle age. His funeral is just over, and his friends and family have gathered at a quiet bar in the Bronx to forgive his ghost and congratulate his widow. So Alice McDermott sets down at the outset of Charming Billy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 280 pages; $22), a rueful shrug of a novel whose strong, shrewd opening pages should be taught in college writing classes...
...Stevens cannot direct this anger, for it permeates the town of Sam Dent. The children united the town through a sense of community. Without the bond provided by the children, the dark secrets of the San Dent are revealed. The tiny town recalls the isolated communities imagined by David Lynch, where normalcy masks taboos such as incest and adultery...
...nobody came," says Richard de Neufville, professor of transportation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. De Neufville reflects the orthodox view that markets, not mandates, should determine what is made and sold. That may be true, but it does nothing to solve the nation's pollution problems. Says Sheila Lynch, head of the Northeast Alternative Vehicle Consortium: "The government has to make the EV market happen, the same way it mandated air bags and catalytic converters...
...taking this kick in the rear without a yelp. "I don't think the model is threatened," says Tom Gardner, co-founder of the Motley Fool Website, where an estimated 200,000 "fools" play some version of the Dow dogs. Stan Craig, head of UIT sales at Merrill Lynch (which controls $10 billion in Dow-dog assets), notes that a buy-and-hold investor in the first "Select 10" UIT in 1991 would be up 184% by now, vs. 171% for the Dow. But clearly the advantages first noted by O'Higgins have eroded. Morningstar Inc. studied the strategy over...
...Peggy Lynch F.N.P., a participating Zinberg Clinic staff member, said she was "really thrilled" to evaluate patients "in a place where people can learn more [about...