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Spears, a Cambridge resident of 32 years, was nominated by Mary Samp, wife of longtime election commissioner Ed Samp and chair of the Ward Seven Republican Committee...
When Robbie Reimuller (Seth Adkins) is diagnosed as having epilepsy, his parents Lori (Streep) and Dave (Fred Ward) go along with the specialists' recommendations. But Dr. Abbasac (Allison Janney), a real Cruella DePill type, makes Robbie a tiny living lab for dubious experiments. Ann Beckett's bold teleplay charges doctors with being addicted to prescribing dangerous drugs to kids. The medical ordeal also acts as a mind-altering drug on Dave and Lori; it twists their love into rage and recrimination...
...must bring to ...first do no harm" a tolerance for lines like Lori's anguished "Please don't let him die!" But most of the piece has a steely passion that is evident in Ward's frazzled manliness and, especially, in Streep's carefully natural performance. She has the small gestures and tight, hectoring voice of a woman untrained for heroism, and, finally, the exhaustion of a longtime caregiver. It's been said of Streep that she learns each new role as if it were a foreign language. Here, though, she's acting, not Acting--inhabiting the part rather than...
TIPS definitely make sense for the government. The new issues could eventually lower the Treasury's cost of borrowing by billions. No wonder plans call for a second auction in April that might offer TIPS in a variety of maturities so you can ward off inflation for as many years as you like...
Over the Christmas holiday, Dickey told a friend, Ward Briggs, a classics professor at the University of South Carolina, "I had a dream last night. I was back in high school playing football. I scored three touchdowns, including the winning touchdown, and I ended up with the most beautiful girl in the school. I said to her, 'This is the most wonderful day of my life. Too bad it's only a dream.' And she said, 'Yes, but in the dream it's real.'" One night, near the end, Briggs whispered in Dickey's ear, "In the dream...