The complete online text of For Better or Worse by W. W. Jacobs.

W. W. Jacobs, remembered today almost exclusively for his horror story "The Monkey's Paw" (The Lady of the Barge, 1902), was one of the most popular English humorists of the early twentieth century. His stories, many of them amusing tales of life along t...

Mike Celizic The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 04-26-1992 FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE By Mike Celizic Date: 04-26-1992, Sunday Section: SPORTS Edition: All Editions -- Sunday Notes: Early run version EAST RUTHERFORD -- Better, the Rangers kept saying through the second and...

GOOD WIVES? Mary, Fanny, Jennie and Me by Margaret Forster (Chatto, 18.99) MARGARET Foster's new book is a gentle enquiry into the conditions of being a wife, using three historical subjects as examples, interspersed with autobiographical reflections about her own happy 40- year...

Is the market going to make good on day two of its rally attempt by delivering a follow-through day, perhaps as early as Friday? That's probably the million dollar question for a few well-heeled institutional types at this stage of the market's correction. On the...

Tens of thousands of people on Friday marked the first anniversary of the death of longtime President Saparmurat Niyazov, laying flowers at monuments to the autocratic leader and streaming to his mausoleum.Niyazov, who crushed dissent in more than two decades at the helm of the...