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...guarded façade. Glimpses into her design rooms are forbidden, as are previews of upcoming collections. And a few subjects do ignite her rumored tartness. One obvious nerve is the idea that her clothes lack a strong fashion message. "It's a very stupid comment," she retorts. "I never approach a collection thinking it needs to be commercial. But if my ideas are so desirable that people want to buy them, to me, the collection is a success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lady of the House | 1/31/2008 | See Source »

...American ingenuity that can find a way to make a buck out of even the worst situations, a cottage industry has sprung up to help people cope with and often celebrate this passage from one part of their lives to the next. "Once divorce gets so common, the human approach is to treat it like another aspect of life," says sociologist David Popenoe, co-director of the National Marriage Project at Rutgers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bye Bye, Love | 1/31/2008 | See Source »

...appeal of the meal-assembly approach isn't that it saves you time; it's that it saves you having to think. That's what the moms at Dream Dinners liked: they didn't have to worry about what was for dinner when they came home from work. Some of them confessed they didn't tell their families that they didn't "make" dinner, because, maybe, kind of, they sort of did. Unlike the old frozen dinner, designed to be consumed with multitasking efficiency while watching television, the new one--with its dirty pots and table setting--is trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outsourcing Home Cooking | 1/31/2008 | See Source »

Over the years, the superintendent’s critics have called him “autocratic” and “uninspiring,” citing his top-down approach to leadership and inability to collaborate with principals and teachers...

Author: By Cora K. Currier and Vidya B. Viswanathan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Schools Superintendent Gets New Contract | 1/31/2008 | See Source »

...even his success in boosting scores has brought him some criticism: committee member Marc C. McGovern said yesterday that Fowler-Finn’s “test-oriented” approach stifles the creative freedom of teachers...

Author: By Cora K. Currier and Vidya B. Viswanathan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Schools Superintendent Gets New Contract | 1/31/2008 | See Source »

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