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Claire Messud’s latest novel, “The Emperor’s Children,” accomplishes precisely this; it is an enchanting comedy of manners about the New York glitterati and three aimless, prodigiously talented Ivy League graduates on the precipice of turning 30 but lacking...

Author: By David L. Golding, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Frivolous Lives, Interrupted | 12/13/2006 | See Source »

Consider the boy, at 13 or 18, through the two-way mirror at a police station - oh, he knows you're watching - and see a creature of preternatural poise. He already has the disquieting gift of lowering the temperature of any room he enters. He is armed, by birth and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Becoming Hannibal Lecter | 12/11/2006 | See Source »

I did listen to this advice when I was a kid. We were clear in my house about how it was supposed to be. When the mommy says no, that's what she means. And you don't answer back like she's a peer. But I taught my daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A Ms. Manners | 12/3/2006 | See Source »

It's sort of ironic, don't you think, that you're doing a manners book since you've got into trouble for things you've said?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A Ms. Manners | 12/3/2006 | See Source »

Not for bad manners! I'm a comic, and my job is to be funny. I'm political--I am that. I made a misstep once about Bob Dole and then wrote him a letter and apologized.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A Ms. Manners | 12/3/2006 | See Source »

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