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...built to go for quick, competitive reproductive hits and move on. Women are built for the it-takes-a-village life, in which they provide long-term care to a very few young and must sail them safely into an often hostile world. Among some of our evolutionary kin--baboons, macaques and other old-world monkeys--this can be especially tricky since young females inherit their mother's social rank. The mothers must thus operate the levers of society deftly so as to raise both their own position and, eventually, their daughters'. If you think that kind of ambition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ambition: Why Some People Are Most Likely To Succeed | 11/6/2005 | See Source »

...were wasting away. Amanda (Shawnee Smith, who reprises her role in the sequel), the former drug addict who once survived Jigsaw’s maniacal scheme, credits him with motivating her to address her problem. The sequel stars Donnie Wahlberg (“The Sixth Sense” and kin of Marky Mark) as Detective Eric Mason, a down-and-out cop struggling with severe disillusionment at work and the estrangement of his son Daniel (Erik Knudsen). Initially reluctant to get involved in a murder case of Jigsaw’s, Mason is left with no alternative when he realizes...

Author: By Brian A Cantor, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Saw II | 10/27/2005 | See Source »

...sequel stars Donnie Wahlberg (“The Sixth Sense” and kin of Marky Mark) as Detective Eric Mason, a down-and-out cop struggling with severe disillusionment at work and the estrangement of his son Daniel (Erik Knudsen). Initially reluctant to get involved in a murder case of Jigsaw’s, Mason is left with no alternative when he realizes his son is among the potential victims...

Author: By Brian A Cantor, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Saw II | 10/26/2005 | See Source »

...thought she could save our collective fate by wearing magenta heels to a discussion of Hobbes. My bitter consolation is that departments such as government and philosophy also boast a majority of drab concentrators. But as I contemplate the lack of exoticism in those I have elected as my kin, the fabled territory of Romance Languages returns to mind. Reputedly Harvards stylish females congregate there, although they have also been observed in enclaves such as Foreign Cultures 22: La critique sociale and English 10b: Major British Writers. In a similar anomaly, there are Core classes whose ratio of athletes...

Author: By Alexander Bevilacqua, | Title: Shopping Week Identity Crisis | 9/20/2005 | See Source »

...from his roof, and swam and rode the current for two hours. He saved the dog but later found that his 80-year-old mother, in another house and on a respirator, had refused to leave. "I hope she went fast," he says. He knows many who have lost kin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking Ahead | 9/11/2005 | See Source »

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