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...parents, Charles and Lisa, are staring at a medical bill for $106,373 from Miami Children's Hospital. Then there are the credit-card debts. The $10,310 they owe Bank One. The $5,537 they owe Chase Manhattan Bank. The $8,222 they owe MBNA America. The $4,925 they owe on their Citibank Preferred Visa card. The $6,838 they owe on their Discover card. The $6,458 they owe on their MasterCard. "People don't understand, unless they have a medically needy child, these kinds of circumstances," says Charles Trapp, 42, a mail carrier...
Women such as Lucy Garcia. The 26-year-old mother of two boys, ages 9 and 6, Garcia is a payroll coordinator at the Sheraton New York, one of midtown Manhattan's largest hotels. Assigned to the food-and-beverage department, she helps compute wages, overtime payments and other payroll items for the department's 800 employees. And she balances the department's checkbook...
When she fell behind in the rent and her landlord warned that he would evict her, she knew she had to do something. She turned to a Manhattan consumer-bankruptcy lawyer, Charles Juntikka. Garcia was typical of many of his clients--embarrassed by her debts, upset over not being able to pay her bills, not knowing where to turn. "There is this image of middle-class people running up huge debts, then declaring bankruptcy and laughing at everyone," he says. "I've just never seen that. These people hurt...
...vague cultural phenomenon snapped into sharp focus for me recently at a restaurant opening in Manhattan. The revelers at Dylan were mostly twentysomethings and soooo trendy. They looked like a bunch of Gap models with cell phones pressed to their beautiful little ears. More on point, virtually all of them were chastened day traders. A young partner in the restaurant venture confided that the volatile NASDAQ had all but ruined him, prompting him to--oh no!--start a career...
...Woody Allen! I got to see Woody Allen! So what if that has nothing to do with music (although his use of Gershwin songs in Manhattan was a lovely touch for a lovely movie)? I'll be Soman for a paragraph and use my column to talk about anything pop-cultural... speaking of which, does anyone have the "Party of Five" finale on tape? My VCR was set to tape "Dawson's Creek...