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...ever get any stories in which you felt the woman was at fault? Dubelman: Oh, sure. And the women are so great at confessing their own faults. There's a story in the book where the woman has sex in a bar bathroom. She absolutely knew that this was a crazy idea, the bathroom was dirty, it was not a nice place, she didn't even really want to do it. It was a horrible idea - and gross - but she's willing to confess that she did it. So you don't blame her for it, 'cause she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Makes a Bad Boyfriend? | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...entire genome, but as they get to know its parts better, they're getting a more precise comprehension of one of the most important features of evolution: how complex organs evolve. The notion that something as intricate as an eye could have evolved, Darwin wrote, "seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree." But he argued that new complex organs could evolve through a series of intermediate forms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ever Evolving Theories of Darwin | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...church and state. He has gone deep into Colombian jungles to mediate between leftist guerrillas and right-wing death squads, and once, while still a bishop, he showed up at the house of cocaine king Pablo Escobar disguised as a milkman. Revealing himself, Castrillón implored Escobar to confess his sins, which, presumably at some considerable length, the vicious gangster did. "Anyone who's had interaction with him will tell you he's an imperious [person] who acts first and worries about the consequences later," says the Vatican official. "Sometimes I don't think he even cares about the consequences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cardinal Behind the Pope's Lefebvrite Flap | 2/4/2009 | See Source »

Gentlemen: I must confess serious doubts about the efficacy—or even the integrity—of the “classic” exam period editorial, “Beating the System,” you reprinted recently. I almost suspect this so-called “Donald Carswell ’50” of being rather one of Us—the Bad Guys—than one of you. If your readers have been following Mr. Carswell’s advice for the last 11 years, then your readers have been going down the tubes...

Author: By A Grader | Title: A Grader’s Reply | 1/11/2009 | See Source »

...first time I went on vacation without my long-term, live-in boyfriend, I went to Seattle and, I must confess, I enjoyed every single second of it. From the posh hotel with the king-sized bed (all mine! no snoring!) to seafood dinners with fabulous friends he's never met to a solo stroll through touristy Pike Place Market, I could not stop smiling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is It Healthy for Couples to Travel Apart? | 12/16/2008 | See Source »

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