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...That's not to say that all men are alcoholics or sexual predators, certainly not. But there is a way in which we view the world that is not unlike some of the stuff that goes through Bunny's head, a sort of running sexual commentary. Some men will admit this and some men won't. Women also like the character because I've revealed something they've suspected about men all along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Musician and Author Nick Cave | 9/17/2009 | See Source »

...supporting them enough," says Stephen Madarasz, spokesperson for the New York Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA; Local 1000), which represents the guards and operational staff. State officials, for their part, express frustration that despite retraining, too many of the staff continue to over-rely on force. Most observers admit that the conflict is at least in part a cultural clash between minority kids, mostly from tough New York City neighborhoods, and a largely white, nonurban staff thrown together in a combustible setting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Reforming the Juvenile-Justice System Is So Hard | 9/16/2009 | See Source »

...track. At first, she rode high in an open-topped car, blushing and waving like a prom queen. A few minutes later, it was a burly-looking Semenya who rolled up to a microphone, baseball cap on backward, and thanked the crowd in a cracked baritone. Family and friends admit there is more than a hint of gender ambiguity about Semenya. "She looks like a boy," says her elder sister Nico, 24, at the family home in Masehlong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home of South Africa's Gender Bending Runner | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

...might have ended up dead. "The dividing line between those two was clearly educational opportunity," he says. Sure, all kids are guaranteed seats in a classroom, but too many are taught by middling teachers in awful schools, Duncan says. "It's obvious the system's broken. Let's admit it's broken, let's admit it's dysfunctional, and let's do something dramatically different, and let's do it now. But don't just tinker around the edges. Don't just play with it. Let's fix the thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Arne Duncan (And $5 Billion) Fix America's Schools? | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

...first met Dunne in Washington when I had him on my radio show. He was supposed to chat for an hour but stayed for three. He was your ideal guest: passionate, humorous and extraordinarily honest. Dunne was the first to admit that when he covered high-profile crimes, he was "prosecution-oriented." The careful term alluded to the first and most painful trial he ever witnessed--that concerning his daughter Dominique, a 22-year-old actress who was strangled to death by an ex-boyfriend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dominick Dunne | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

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