Buyout Sex, the other severance benefit

Who knew layoffs could be a turn on?Mary F. Pols, a movie critic who accepted one of the scores of buyouts at the Contra Costa Times, made the best of a traumatic situation by having an affair with a fellow scribe at the California paper, she revealed in Modern Love, the most consistently delectable feature in the Sunday New York Times.“Buyout Sex,” as Mary (left) dubbed it, affords a journalist