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...depression, and all the little things that no one bothers to tell new mothers until it's too late. It Sucked and Then I Cried is a memoir of the first nine months of her daughter's life, Armstrong's first nine months as a mother, and the mental breakdown she had because of it. Armstrong talked to TIME about her blog, her baby, and why no one ever told her that being a new mother was hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Pregnancy Sucks | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...Turkey's local elections are out of the way, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is free to focus on economic and political reforms. Progress is needed, and quickly - not only to get the country through these turbulent economic times but also to avert the risk of a breakdown in E.U.-Turkey relations before the end of the year. The irony is that the relationship is most at risk at a time when the E.U. and Turkey need each other more than ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Can't Europe and Turkey Get Along | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...notion a bank can be concerned about investments with Madoff and then be unconcerned by the same man's vast sums of cash flowing in and out of the same bank has experts and lawyers still shaking their heads. Others see it as a classic breakdown between technology and the human factor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Madoff's Banker: Where Was JPMorgan Chase? | 3/25/2009 | See Source »

...cool thing.” In approaching these tropes honestly, Boice holds them to a light that transcends cliché.Grayson’s friends are obsessed with women, pot, music, Nintendo, and SAT-prep, and are constantly “teetering on the edge of a nervous breakdown because their hemp necklace might be gay.” Boice deftly illustrates the psyche of the teenager of 1998: totally self-absorbed, yet cripplingly self-conscious.Boice’s unapologetic bluntness renders these characters with startling realism. The archetypes of high school—the hot blond gym teacher...

Author: By Lauren S. Packard, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Macabre, Mundane Merge | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

...Beginning with a heavy beat but soft vocals in a content apathy, the piece develops a melody that tenses up with the introduction of electronic flares and static creeping into the background. The distortion of one key repeated phrase in the song and the eventual clumsy breakdown of the tune into silence lend it an incredible power of allegory for decay, like a sunny day degenerating into a damp and cloudy afternoon. Much of the rest of the album, however, is plagued with incomprehensible lyrics and tiring reverberations of electric blares.In an attempt to reshape the genre of noise...

Author: By Antonia M.R. Peacocke, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Wavves | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

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