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...Books targeting young women pose similar questions: Will the characters get married and have children, or will they defer having a family and live on their own? Sassy singletons making their way in the big city are the usual heroines, wrestling with what it means to be an independent woman in a country where premarital sex is still considered shocking and the vast majority of women live with their parents until they get married. A boxed set of recent popular novels by Indian women could be called "Every Girl's Career Guide," says Rupa Gulab, who wrote Girl Alone based...
...Harvard nearly on par with her summer activities. A native of Kfar Saba, Israel, the freshman finished high school and served in the army before getting accepted to Harvard to join the class of 2011. After being admitted, the 2006 No. 1 junior epeeist in the world decided to defer for a year to attempt to qualify for Beijing. She now joins the community as a member of 2012.“For me, Harvard, getting here, being here is almost as big as going to the Olympics was,” Mills said. “Being from Israel...
There are obviously a lot of other things that could be fixed at the CIA, such as finding a way to combine databases with the FBI. But on that I'll defer to someone who knows what he is talking about. What I do know is that if we continue to let the White House meddle in intelligence, we'll get another costly war we don't need - and ultimately...
...that suggests less a guest on Dancing With the Stars than a heretofore unclassified creature on Animal Planet, Chad-Brad is the least troubled character in the film. He's never thought hard enough to consider how other people might think of him; he has no special dreams to defer, no ambitions to be crushed. For him, the unexamined life is the only one worth living...
...life hasn't left a lot of time for a personal life. To Nugen, a good time is grabbing a beer after a later night at work with colleagues. He hopes to take a vacation in November and, maybe, find a girlfriend. Still, he's hoping to yet again defer that business degree and work in the next administration if Obama wins. In the meantime, he plans on returning to Chicago once the convention is over, though he hasn't had the time to figure out in what capacity. "Believe me," he says, "I'll have plenty of work...