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Perhaps Dartboard just misses New York these days. We can't wait until Thanksgiving to take a breather and plunge into the cradle of neurotic civilization. But at least this weekend we can pretend, as we vicariously screw up personal relationships, kvetch to shrinks, boil lobsters and just generally make the world a crazier place...
Boyhood is unusual not only in style, but in motive as well. While most writers of memoirs blame their parents for turning them into screw-ups, Coetzee takes a decidely unconventional turn. The young Coetzee resents his privilege. At school, he is the model student, finishing first in all his classes without a semblance of strain. At home, he is "an irascible despot," displacing his ineffectual father as the household's center of attention: "He has never worked out the position of his father in the household. In fact, it is not obvious to him by what right his father...
...Meets-the Advocate Award: to "Eng 253: Game Theory and The Novel: Austen and James." Really turns the screw on disciplinary integrity...
...above the ratings fray. Of course, to do that you would first have to define news. Is the Village Voice news? The American Civil Liberty Union's Website? The Netly News? We use four-letter functionals now and then (but only where no other, five-letter word will suffice). Screw magazine publishes reviews of upcoming adult videos and lap-dancing parlors. That's news, right? See the problem? Even Merrill Brown, MSNBC's editor in chief, pronounces the whole idea "fundamentally ludicrous...
Once a telecommunications monolith, the AT&T Corp. (1996 sales: $52 billion) is looking increasingly like a monolithic screw-up. This year alone the company has lost $12 billion in market value. Walter's exit, only eight months after he was plucked from R.R. Donnelley & Sons following a high-profile executive search, is the latest in a series of blunders that have cost AT&T in lost business, a slow leak of top executives and a falling stock price. Last August, Walter's predecessor, Alex Mandl, resigned after a seven-month tenure, similarly frustrated in his quest to become...