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...About three things I was absolutely certain,” the book’s jacket cover reads, excerpting a passage from the perspective of the human protagonist Belle Goose. “First, Edwart was most likely my soul mate, maybe. Second, there was a vampire part of him—which I assumed was wildly out of his control—that wanted me dead. And third, I unconditionally, irrevocably, impenetrably, heterogeneously, gynecologically, and disreputably wished he had kissed...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lampoon Publishes 'Twilight' Parody | 10/13/2009 | See Source »

...personify that. We don't like that. Or maybe we're drawn to it and repelled by it at the same time. Of course, I imagine a twin would look at the rest of us somewhat pityingly, because if you're a twin, you really do have a soul mate. I've talked to a lot of twins, and they've all mentioned that you feel the need to make yourself into an individual. You're always a twin, but the question, I think, for any pair of twins is, How's that going to work once we get married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Audrey Niffenegger on Her Ghostly New Novel | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

City Councilor Sam Yoon, Flaherty’s running mate, had also championed such reforms in his own campaign until losing in the preliminary elections last month...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach and Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Menino Faces Call For Reform | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

Those who know him best say that if McCain has regrets about the race he ran or his choice of Sarah Palin to be his running mate, they do not show. He tells his staff over and over again, "Don't look back in anger." Several of his former advisers say he is still sore at many of his fellow Republicans who mocked his selection of Palin or who McCain believes did not work overtime to help him. His friends blame the media and the economy for McCain's loss, while former aides grumble about Palin and the general embarrassment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John McCain: Can He Mend Fences with the Right? | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

...importance of revenge. A few had sex in order to give someone else a sexually transmitted disease. More commonly, women's revenge sex involved getting back at a cheating partner, or having sex with the partner of a friend who had poached her partner. Actually, the frequency of mate-poaching also surprised me - the frequency with which women try to lure men who are already "taken," either for a short-term sexual liaison or a longer-term relationship. Most women have experienced mate-poaching in one form or another, either as the mate poacher or as the victim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Women Have Sex | 10/6/2009 | See Source »

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