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...Color of Money Hirst never met his biological father. He was raised mostly by his mother, Mary Brennan, who lives next door to his home in Devon. A stepfather departed when he was 12. As a boy, Hirst liked to draw, and eventually he was accepted by Goldsmiths College at the University of London. It was as a second-year student that he did the thing that first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Damien Hirst: Bad Boy Makes Good | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

...that necessity is the mother of invention, and no country has more of a necessity to develop clean power than China. If we don't lead, someone else will, and China is a very likely candidate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Thomas Friedman | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

...less conventional, and he could have used that kind of intervention this time. For a show about prejudice, True Blood is free with stereotypes: Sookie's sassy black friend, the flaming gay cook and sundry racist Juh-hee-sus-fearing rednecks. (When a boy sees Bill and tells his mother, "He's so white!" she answers, "No, darlin', we're white. He's dayd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Undead on Arrival | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

Relations between Alice and her mother-in-law remain frosty for a decade, as Charlie--after an unsuccessful run for Congress--slips into alcoholism and idly watching ball games and pitying himself as he putters around the family meatpacking business. When Alice finally decides she's had enough and uses her mother's home as the halfway house to a formal separation, Maj calls and drops a bomb: the family had been shocked that someone as refined as Alice had chosen Charlie in the first place. "[H]e was a 31-year-old wastrel, making that preposterous congressional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Private History | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

Your 765-word plea for tuition help notes that your mother is handicapped and your father has three jobs. Do you worry your e-mail looks like a scam? I definitely see why people might think it's a scam. They can check it out; they can call NYU's financial-aid office if they want ... I was trying to make it seem as unscam-like as possible. Which is kind of difficult when you're asking for money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Strangers to Pay My Tuition | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

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