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| Cartoons of the Week: Feb. 4-10 |
(Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
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Author: TIME Staff |
Category: Cartoons of the Week |
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| Why American Kids Are Brats |
(Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
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Amidst all the talk this past week about Pamela Druckerman’s new book, Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting, there was one phrase that immediately lodged itself in my mind. It was in a sidebar that ran with the Wall Street Journal adaptation of her book, “Why French Parents Are [...]  |
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Author: Judith Warner |
Category: Children |
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| How Oil is Propping Up Putin |
(Thu, 09 Feb 2012)
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Author: Fareed Zakaria |
Category: World |
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| Can the Kindle Save Anna Karenina? |
(Thu, 09 Feb 2012)
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Last week, prize-winning novelist and occasional bomb-thrower Jonathan Franzen dismissed e-books as lacking a “sense of permanence.” Aside from the fact that e-books are very much here to stay and just might revive the book industry — between Dec. 26 and Jan. 1, the most popular format for 84% of USA Today‘s best selling books was electronic, [...]  |
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Author: Jeff Alexander |
Category: Arts & Entertainment |
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| College Endowments: Why Even Harvard Isn’t as Rich as You Think |
(Thu, 09 Feb 2012)
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It seems everyone has an opinion about what colleges and universities should do with their endowments. Use them to lower tuition! Let students attend for free! Improve facilities! Hire more professors! When the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) released its annual report on endowments last week, the big numbers grabbed headlines [...]  |
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Author: Andrew J. Rotherham |
Category: Education |
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| Why ‘I Hate Religion, But I Love Jesus’ Is So Popular |
(Wed, 08 Feb 2012)
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The hottest video on YouTube right now is a 5-minute spoken-word composition titled “Why I Hate Religion, But I Love Jesus.” Recorded by 22-year-old Seattle resident Jefferson Bethke, the clip has been viewed more than 18 million times since it was posted on Jan. 10. Bethke’s message — “If religion is so great, why has [...]  |
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Author: Annie Murphy Paul |
Category: Books |
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| In Defense of Gisele Bündchen and Strong Sports Spouses |
(Wed, 08 Feb 2012)
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There is no doubt that being a spouse of a top athlete is tough. If you want to spend a lot of time with him or her, you most likely have to put whatever personal goals you have for yourself aside to be available in those rare moments when he or she has true downtime. [...]  |
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Author: Doug Glanville |
Category: Arts & Entertainment |
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| Lessons for Obama from the Super Bowl |
(Wed, 08 Feb 2012)
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President Obama made a broad appeal to the American people in his pre-Super Bowl interview with Matt Lauer that spoke to both his psychological strengths and limitations. Known for his last-minute, come-from-behind successes, Obama shares an attitude with winner-take-all quarterback Eli Manning. And eager to get his message to as big an audience as possible, [...]  |
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Author: Justin Frank, M.D. |
Category: Obama on the Couch |
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| When Chefs Get Fat |
(Wed, 08 Feb 2012)
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I found Fat Chef, the Food Network’s new reality show about, well, fat chefs, surprisingly hard to watch. But I also found that I couldn’t stop watching it. It was depressing and inspiring at the same time, an emotional speedball. I can’t say I really approve of it, but I know that I’m going to [...]  |
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Author: Josh Ozersky |
Category: Arts & Entertainment |
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| The New Upper Class and the Real Reason We Dislike Them |
(Tue, 07 Feb 2012)
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The Pew Foundation discovered in a recent poll that tensions over inequality in wealth now outrank tensions over race and immigration. But income inequality isn’t really the problem. A new upper class is the problem. And their wealth isn’t what sets them apart or creates so much animosity toward them. Let’s take a guy — [...]  |
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Author: Charles Murray |
Category: Business & Tech |
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