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...enough foresight to do this well. Ilana Kurshan '00 was terrific as Tasha, Janie's mother, keeping a balance between pushy and pathetic in her interaction with her daughter. This combination of emotions was touching if predictable. On the other hand, Lillian (Aviva Preminger '00), Harriet's mother, was stiff in giving advice to her daughter. Lines seemed forced, as when she called Harriet "baby" in nearly every scene...
...After completing my first semester here at Harvard, I have arrived at a solution to all of our institutional woes--state liquor laws should be callously disregarded and we should all throw caution to the wind. The student body needs a stiff drink...
...been one of the best-run [Harvard] conferences ever," said Eileen Waite, coach at New Jersey's Randolph High School. "The competition here is as stiff as at nationals...
...hedging his bets. Plenty of people believe traditional retail brokerage is headed for extinction. Plenty also think this merger won't work. Mack denies it, but he's fuming over Purcell's getting the top job. And I'd like to be there the first time a working-stiff broker from Dean Witter tells a millionaire banker from Morgan to set aside 100 shares of a hot new-stock deal for one of his piddling accounts. The culture gap is vast. At Dean Witter, their Discover cards are dull from use--not gleaming tickets to Main Street...
Imagine your four-year-old boy--healthy, cheerful, with a bright future you take for granted--suddenly swept into an epileptic seizure. He goes stiff; his eyes roll up; his jaw is clenched. Except for his piglet squeals, he might have been dead for a minute or two. Children during grand mal attacks seem possessed; in the New Testament, epilepsy is referred to as a "demon." So the mother of an epileptic boy first looks at doctors as exorcists. But as she sees them prescribe a series of harsh medications, each creating side effects that the next is supposed...