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...pages; $24) is Glen Cady, a 50-year-old professor of German whose young wife Paige goes septic after he is rejected for tenure at his New Hampshire university. Glen is a decent fellow. He was an assembly-line worker in Detroit as a young man, before he quit and revived an interest in the German language begun when he was a soldier in Europe. Paige is petulant and self-absorbed. She disapproves of his besotted love for their four-year-old daughter ("so working class") and grumps when he has a perfectly understandable affair with a pretty grad student...
Meanwhile, the service sector itself is constantly generating new jobs. Realizing that personal computers were changing the way people work and play, Bob Zyontz and Larry Trink quit comfortable jobs in advertising agencies in 1986 to try to cash in on the new technology. Today their New Jersey-based firm, Princeton Direct, has $6 million in revenues and 14 employees engaged in the business of putting multimedia catalogs and other marketing material on diskettes and CD-ROMs. To keep up with the workload, Zyontz and Trink two years ago brought in computer expert and psychologist Jeff Friedman as a third...
...Issue a communique explaining why people should quit whining about Ivy League fan support. For in spite of all the deficiencies in the big-time world of sports today, it's that which we follow and not Harvard-Bucknell at Soldiers' Field, and such is life...
...told the doctor about the voices, the images. "I was mixed up, dirty, wired up and spacy," Cummings relates. "He said he wanted me to sign this paper for experimental research. He told me I didn't have an obligation to be in it. He said I could quit if I wanted, but he wouldn't advise that. He said the drugs they would be giving were completely harmless. He said the hospital would kick me out on the streets if I didn't participate. That was the word he used: kick...
Neither roommate plans to quit any time soon. Delichatsious says the pressures of writing a thesis and directing a play make a steady stream of caffeine vital...