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...Kosman ... He’s Yet to Take Out the CLIPPERS at Falmouth”) for the football team; still more disturbing were the sexual implications of their decorating his bedroom. And apart from my feminist objections, I felt pretty bad about the fact that poor Shelli and her cohort had to squander their efforts on so marginal a football player as my brother...
...country needs, he says, is a day off. So he has organized the first National Take Back Your Time Day, scheduled for Oct. 24. The idea--really a nationwide version of the Ridgewood initiative--is for people to take time out to protest what de Graaf and his cohort see as "an epidemic of overwork and overscheduling threatening communities and families." Events ranging from forums on how to create a society that operates at a slower pace with fewer time pressures to parties extolling the virtues of a simplified life have been planned in 60 cities, including Boston, Seattle...
...This is a real Eastern Western: grizzled heroes enacting blood feuds in a gloriously forlorn landscape?the Taklimakan Desert?where the men ride camels as well as horses. Our outlaw hero has a familiar cohort of misfits: sassy kid, young woman, saintly monk and an old man with one last battle in him. I don't know if you can drawl in Mandarin, but Jiang Wen is sure-as-shootin' John Wayne, the gruff leader who tells his supporting-actor pals, "I don't want to turn your wives into widows," and rides off alone. (Of course they follow...
...note that their community is small and tightly knit; most of them studied together and worked together. If a new, secret WMD program had started up, they argue, certain core players who held the necessary expertise would have had to be involved. Several scientists told TIME that all their cohort is accounted for; no one went underground. Iraq's premier scientists, according to Nabil al-Rawi, moved on to other things--teaching, water and power projects, producing generic Viagra...
Such parental self-sacrifice is no doubt human nature, but it's an instinct that seems more in evidence at the moment than in years past. The vast majority of those currently having children are members of that notorious--and notoriously large--demographic, Generation X, a cohort that has proved highly susceptible to displays of status. "Having a baby now is like having a country house or an SUV," says NPD's Cohen. Those intent on having the best-dressed child on the playground can swathe their offspring in such luxury labels as Burberry, Donna Karan and Versace...