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...casts a thick fog - a regular pea souper - over memories of our bright college years. He's the kind of teacher who routinely visits contempt on his students, contumely on his colleagues and a catastrophic self-involvement on any woman crazy enough to contemplate a relationship with him. Needless to say, he has accomplished nothing to justify his arrogance; he only has an excuse - he continues to mourn the death of his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smart People: A "Could See" Movie | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

...there are many, many men who get married, have children and then, somewhere along the line, like in Brokeback Mountain, discover that they are either bisexual or homosexual. Needless to say, there's a time when they just don't want to have sex with their wives. [But] the man's drop in desire doesn't have anything to do with the wife, the woman. I point this out because one of the things that is so characteristic of sex-starved wives is that when their husbands aren't interested in sex, they immediately internalize it. They think there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Help for Sex-Starved Wives | 4/7/2008 | See Source »

...Needless to say, it wasn't exactly a poster week for the local tourism chamber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disaster in a Tourist Mecca. Actors Wanted | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

...teenager to Europe, where he eventually became famous for railing against what he sees as fundamental flaws in his native religion. The Rome-based journalist has faced repeated death threats from Islamic radicals, and travels to speaking engagements in Italy and abroad with an armed security detail. Needless to say, neither Allam nor Hirsan Ali show signs of toning down their criticism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Muslim Critic Turns Catholic | 3/24/2008 | See Source »

...Harvard shot into the air and then batted it forward to his attackers, setting his offense up for the second of its four power-play scores at 8:10.“I don’t think it was a great surprise: we took a lot of needless penalties,” Crimson coach Ted Donato ’91 said of the difference between the first two games of the series. “There’s not a lot of secrets to that, or X’s and O’s, it?...

Author: By Daniel J. Rubin-wills, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Penalties Doom Crimson as Quinnipiac Ties Series in Game Two | 3/17/2008 | See Source »

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