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...characters are stylized and predictable, from her distant father and elegant mother to the Swedish personal trainer named Greta. Her parents have all the standard trappings of wealth: mansion in Connecticut, Florida beach house, Aspen condo. Even the psychological background created through carefully spliced-in childhood flashbacks is contrived and formulaic. It is textbook. Her parents were never physical with their child...they were never physical with one another...they never yelled, but "Silence was the weapon" in their household. Jane feels perpetually inferior to them. Estranged from her identity, haunted by her parent's expectations, rejected by medical schools...
...here for the ball, but I don't think I'll get it," laughed Margaret Dodge, parent of KSG first-year Andy M. Dodge...
Armstrong has leveraged his stock's rising value in a series of bold deals, including a joint venture announced last week with the country's No. 1 cable provider, Time Warner (parent company of Time). The deal--which still needs the approval of another Time Warner partner and possibly that of local regulators--would give AT&T exclusive access for 20 years to Time Warner cable systems, which reach 12.6 million subscribers in 33 states. Starting next year, AT&T would provide local-phone service through the same wires that carry cable TV, thus circumventing the regional-Bell local-phone...
...million Total cost to Time Warner, TIME's parent company, of building the stadium in the first place...
...about the college-admission prospects of the grandchildren? As methods are perfected of enhancing a college application through increasingly expensive services--one young man mentioned in the magazine article had $25,000 worth of SAT preparation--it might become more important to have a parent who's a Wall Street millionaire than to have smart-kid genes. Maybe it would be prudent to add a sentence to those ads in college papers: "Preference given to respondents in the lower third of the class...