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...evening as strangers at an off-campus Valentine’s Day party. Over mixed drinks of various shades of pink and red, we chatted. He apparently didn’t consider me an option that evening because I seemed “too classy” (read: too sober). Instead, he had eyes only for various other, less attractive women, whom he must have seen as “less classy.” Some consider Valentine’s Day to be our anniversary (awww…), though due to the bartender, the host and various other...
During his interview with TIME, Parsons, a New York City native and former corporate lawyer, seemed at once sober and cheerful. He described 2003 as "a reset year," in which the AOL division will be reorganized and streamlined to better serve its traditional dial-up customers while it seeks to win more broadband subscribers. If all goes well, Parsons says, the online division could return to earnings growth in 2004, at double digits in following years. If results fall short of that goal--as some industry analysts predict they will--insiders say the division will at least be dressed...
...time, and we just never got along," Ginger says. But Ginger, at 29, found herself alone in Dallas, unemployed, nearly broke and almost suicidal. To her surprise, the one person from whom she wanted help was her mother. She asked Fran to lend her money. Fran, now sober, suggested that her daughter move in with her in Houston. They fought at first, but with the help of a psychotherapist, they slowly began rebuilding their rocky relationship. "I had to examine my own behavior and admit the mistakes that I made along the way," Fran says. "I'm very careful...
...entertainment value can too readily top substance in some news coverage, particularly on television, and public understanding suffers as a result. If the camera caught a juror in a slumping posture, would there then be media "analysis" on clearheadedness? If cameras routinely appeared in the jury room, would sober, sensitive and sensible individuals come to regard jury duty as taking part in a show of cheapened justice? LARRY MORRISON Sturbridge, Mass...
...staple of our popular culture, comedy division, is the Road Runner--Wile E. Coyote duel, in which the cheerful little beeper continually eludes the inept but monomaniacal chasings of the pursuing varmint. Another less often noted but more sober pop-cultural theme is Steven Spielberg's obsession with children (E.T., Empire of the Sun, et al.) who as a result of either death or divorce are bereft of conventional parenting and wonder if they can successfully make it to maturity. It is the business of Catch Me If You Can to meld these two subgenres in a single film...