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...move in next door. If you are always going for the best you can get, at that point you will dump your partner pronto. But your partner would have invested time, child rearing and forgone opportunities in the relationship by that point. Anticipating this, your mate would have been foolish to enter the relationship in the first place, and the same is true for you. In this world of rational actors, neither of you could thus take the chance on the other. What could make you trust the other person enough to make that leap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crazy Love | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

...Iowa caucuses—a victory that had appeared to give Obama, a Harvard Law School graduate, significant momentum. But Clinton’s Harvard supporters said that their candidate was not to be underestimated. “Everyone left her for dead after Iowa, and that was just foolish given the depth of her support in New Hampshire,” Rahul Prabhakar ’09 said at the Institute of Politics (IOP) primary-night event yesterday. “The Clintons have a long history in New Hampshire, going back to when the state launched Bill?...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: McCain, Clinton Come Back To Win | 1/9/2008 | See Source »

...Given the unpredictable nature of this campaign, and the fact that Romney can fund a long campaign from his own bank account, it doesn't seem all that foolish to stay in the race, no matter how bleak his prospects might seem today. In a year when a little known Baptist minister can come from nowhere to win Iowa, a left-for-dead septuagenarian can claw out a comeback win in New Hampshire, and when Hillary Clinton can begin the day fighting back rumors that she's dropping out the race and end it by delivering a victory speech - anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Romney, Silver Getting Dull | 1/9/2008 | See Source »

...dictators must come face to face with their fate: they last a few years, and then their power unravels. Musharraf is no exception. He would be foolish not to see that it's the beginning of the end. It would be better for him to go into exile now. Shame on dictators around the world, and shame on those who prop up these mean-spirited men with a supply of wealth and weapons. Charles Puthota, SAN FRANCISCO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And the Best Invention Is ... ? | 11/28/2007 | See Source »

...dictators must come face to face with their fate: they last a few years, and then their power unravels. Musharraf is no exception. He would be foolish not to see that it's the beginning of the end. It would be better for him to go into exile now. Shame on dictators around the world, and shame on those who prop up these mean-spirited men with a supply of wealth and weapons. Charles Puthota, San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 11/28/2007 | See Source »

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