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...former male escort and his current wife. The authors of “That Bitch” do plan to tap into the larger, more lucrative market of female self-help readers with a follow-up called—you guessed it—“That Bastard.” Self-help books draw a decisive line between the sexes, firmly sequestering them in enemy camps. Listed between the two books above is “Why Men Love Bitches,” a book that shows women how to become more desirable while losing any remnants...

Author: By Madeline K.B. Ross, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Self-Help Books ‘Bitch’ About Sexes | 10/12/2007 | See Source »

...Harvard underclassmen, after a terminal illness that has plagued it for the last few years, was taken off life support today by Interim Dean of the College David Pilbeam. “It was time to let the poor bastard go,” said Pilbeam. “The Harvard social scene for minors is so strange and inhibited, that this was one of the only things keeping it going. So of course the only thing we could do was kick it to death while it was down.” Citing a number of legitimate reasons that will...

Author: By M. AIDAN Kelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: OBITUARY: Fun at Harvard, 1720-2007. | 10/3/2007 | See Source »

...roll in the hay. Her pregnancy forced their marriage and young Will fled the misery of Stratford-upon-Avon for London, where he promptly became the world's greatest playwright. Citing the omission of Anne's name from his will, academics have happily spun tales that she mothered a bastard, had affairs with her brothers-in-law and even seduced a Puritan preacher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rethinking Anne Hathaway | 8/29/2007 | See Source »

...when an agent tells the breathless owners, "I would list your house for ..." It may not be realistic (how certain can an appraiser be that a half-bath is worth exactly $20,000?). But it's brilliant TV, allowing us to indulge a little jealousy (say, of the lucky bastard who bought a Manhattan apartment for $90,000 in 1990) and vicarious money lust. And it demonstrates how the housing boom changed the way people look at their homes: as an expression of their financial savvy rather than their creative selves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home Economics on TV | 6/14/2007 | See Source »

Today's meeting between the larger-than-life news mogul Rupert Murdoch and the Bancroft family, coupon-clipping owners of Dow Jones, has gripped the little world of journalists. "The rotten old bastard intends to charm them all with his lies," warned Slate media critic Jack Shafer. The idea that Murdoch might get his mitts on the Wall Street Journal has folks scandalized, as though Larry Flynt were buying the New York City Ballet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Wall Street Journal Deserves Murdoch | 6/4/2007 | See Source »

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