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Imagine yourself at the dinner party from hell: terrible food, mutual contempt that’s almost palpable, the bibulous hostess who no longer cares what she says, and if that isn’t enough, inclement weather so bad any pipedream of escape vanishes into the fog. Now imagine...

Author: By Joshua J. Kearney, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Guess Who's Coming to 'Dinner' at the Loeb Ex | 10/26/2006 | See Source »

For a while, Margaret was invisibly chained there; she didn?t learn to drive until season four. But she also was allowed yearnings of escape. She wants a weekend away from the kids - perhaps because, in the lodge, they won?t have to sleep in those separate beds. She takes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Mom | 10/24/2006 | See Source »

(2 of 2) A few stores along, Om Prakash, 70, agrees that the fireworks make for a noisy Diwali. "When I was a child we had small crackers but these days they are bigger," he says, his hollowed out cheeks pulsing as he talks. To curb the noise, local authorities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sound and Fury of Diwali | 10/24/2006 | See Source »

The basic plotline of most of these films is that people are stuck somewhere and have to endure horrible things--or indeed, do horrible things to each other--to escape. The more deviant and repulsive the treatment, the better. Bousman, who directed the later Saw films, says he got inspiration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Splat Pack | 10/22/2006 | See Source »

Beyond basic comprehension and citizenship, markets profoundly affect our daily lives. Whether we are shocked to find no tomatoes in our dining halls or are writing a paper on a computer made in China, it has become impossible to escape market forces. Economic factors also affect our major life decisions...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: The Economic Imperative | 10/20/2006 | See Source »

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