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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Secondly, J.K. Rowling is practically the embodiment of virtue herself. A single mother on welfare when she wrote the first Potter book, she has rapidly risen to becoming the author of three New York Times bestsellers. And she's accomplished this all through her own persistence and ingenuity. Rowling is the Horatio Alger of our Gilded Age, never mind that she's from Scotland...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, | Title: Harry Potter Under Fire | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

None of which means, necessarily, that practicing polyamory should be reason enough to lose custody of your child. In the Divilbiss case, four sets of independent, court-appointed experts concluded that Alana should be returned to her mother. They have also recommended counseling for everyone involved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Henry & Mary & Janet &... | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...have a son Matthew who's 21 and in college. Matthew thinks that what has happened to April, Chris and Shane is awful. "My experience with having 'extra' parents was quite positive," he wrote in a recent e-mail. As a teenager, he had begun to suspect that his mother was having an affair. "To then find out that she was but that it was an approved activity was entirely a relief... It only seemed natural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Henry & Mary & Janet &... | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...comic-book writing, scripts for Miramax and Warner Bros. (a Superman draft didn't work out) and a prime-time cartoon version of Clerks for, of course, Disney. "It's just rife with irony, isn't it?" he says. "Let's see if we can deliver the PG my mother was always lookin' for." But his biggest project is to enjoy time with his new wife Jennifer Schwalbach, a former writer for USA Today, and their newborn daughter Harley Quinn. "I want to take the next year off and raise my child," he says. "Do something noble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Can God Take A Joke? | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...always wrestled with my identity and who I am," says Doshi, who father is from Gujarat in western India and whose mother is from Quebec, though her family is from Lebanon...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Multiracial Students Struggle With Identities | 11/12/1999 | See Source »

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