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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...family business be run? Behavior outside the family's value system can also trip the switch: coming out of the closet, marrying interracially or converting to a new religion. Then there are cutoffs linked to extreme emotional states, the reasons for which--such as untreated mental illness, substance abuse, incest and violence--may never be brought out into the open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We Break Up With Our Siblings | 12/18/2000 | See Source »

...abortion, any form of dialogue between the two sides has clearly broken down. The rhetoric of the debate is extreme, with claims for a policy of no-questions-asked abortion on demand competing with calls for a complete ban on the procedure, even in cases of rape, incest or when the mother's life is in danger. Neither of these positions are or will become law, at least given the current Supreme Court makeup, and therefore I contend it is time for both sides to consider where they can agree on a common goal--fewer abortions--and the following plan...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Building an Abortion Consensus | 9/15/2000 | See Source »

...strategy whatsoever, and indeed may have voted for Jenna to send her home to her kids (or so she could be sure of having the best female bod on the island). Rudy, with the wife out of "American Gothic," seemed to think Greg and his sister were doing an "incest type of thing" - good reason to clear the island of that whippersnapper, who was also sleeping with Colleen but flirting with Richard. And Sean? He voted for Greg because he's going in alphabetical order, and Gervase - who, incidentally, is still the laziest castaway since Mrs. Howell - had immunity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On 'Survivor,' Richard Is Mr. Fascinating | 7/20/2000 | See Source »

...CHINATOWN Lack of water as corrupting influence. Sister! Daughter! Desert! Water! Hydrating parched Los Angeles requires incest, murder and slicing up Jack Nicholson's nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Nonswimmer's 25 Scariest Movies | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

...came a Harvard man--a math prof by trade--with a crew cut, a strangulated tenor and a way of forcing parables of antisocial behavior (e.g., incest) into jolly rhyme schemes ("I'd rather marry a duck-billed pledipus/ Than end up like old Oedipus/ Rex"). For a few years, on albums and in concerts, Lehrer was a comedy hero to the intelligentsia and other lonely people. He surfaced briefly to write songs for the TV shows That Was the Week That Was (no one, not even those who tried, can forget National Brotherhood Week) and The Electric Company (kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Remains of Tom Lehrer | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

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