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When news broke last week that Raymond Sokolov, the longtime restaurant critic of the Wall Street Journal, was out, the average foodie probably didn't look up from his plate. Some middle-aged guy isn't writing reviews for a newspaper whom few even knew had a restaurant critic. So what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Praise of the Endangered Restaurant Critic | 3/16/2010 | See Source »

...Some things have changed since the credit crisis broke. "Large banks have at least temporarily backed out of this business," says Chris Kukla of the Center for Responsible Lending, which tracks predatory lending. "But in the fringe financial business, there are plenty of firms that are willing to take advantage of subprime borrowers' difficulties accessing credit." (See how Americans are spending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Subprime-Lending Business Survives, Even Thrives | 3/11/2010 | See Source »

...people. The tutors get involved, the House Masters get involved, but even people like our security guard will participate in things like Drag Night. Our dining hall manager participates in IM sports. He actually just broke his thumb playing IM sports...

Author: By Liza E. Pincus, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Adams, Lowell, Quincy | 3/11/2010 | See Source »

...amid all the chaos and shouting, the sound heard next was more startling. Sailors on the Churchill's stern, suspecting that their ship had run aground - meaning Graf's career would be instantly over - broke gleefully into song: "Ding dong, the witch is dead!" Newly arrived Navy chaplain Maurice Kaprow could not believe what he was seeing and hearing. "Someone came up to me and said, 'We've run aground - she's finished,' " he recalls. "I was flabbergasted. They were jumping for joy and singing on the fantail." As it turned out, one of the ship's propellers had broken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexism and the Navy's Female Captain Bligh | 3/11/2010 | See Source »

...students and supporters rallied Wednesday at Virginia Commonwealth University to protest Cuccinelli's letter. Waving rainbow flags, chanting "Down With Hate" and wielding signs that read "Jesus Had 2 Dads, Too" and "Homophobia Is A Sin," the animated band assembled near the student union, before 200 later broke away and marched down a main road within blocks of the Virginia State Capitol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Virginia Is for Lovers. But How About Gay Ones? | 3/11/2010 | See Source »

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