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A first-time novelist at age 54, Helen Yglesias made up for lost time by writing five books from 1972 to 1999, garnering a devoted readership. Perhaps her most widely read work, Sweetsir, published in 1981, explored the tortured life of a woman regularly beaten by her husband, until she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

The question is, Why? Given the international scrutiny of Beijing's actions, the hard line has left many observers puzzled. The wiser course would seem to be a more measured response: to practice better crowd control, manage the media better, try negotiation instead of knee-jerk repression. But China's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Olympic Shame | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

When Oprah Winfrey announced that she was getting into the reality-TV business, it seemed to make as much sense as declaring that her book club would henceforth be devoted to discussing first-person-shooter video games. From her talk show to TV movies like Tuesdays with Morrie, Oprah is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reality TV Wants to Heal You | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

It rhymes with “waffle-on,” and it’s totally awesome...It’s ROFLCon. ROFLCon is the brainchild of Tim R. Hwang ’08, a senior in Eliot House who is turning his potentially embarrassing obsession with LOLCats, The...

Author: By Charleton A. Lamb, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Internet Stars to Visit Boston | 4/9/2008 | See Source »

On the anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s death, Hillary Rodham Clinton made an impassioned statement in a Memphis speech, pledging to create a cabinet-level poverty czar who will be "solely and fully devoted to ending poverty as we know it in America." Soon after, John Edwards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Needs a Poverty Czar? | 4/9/2008 | See Source »

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