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Call it the parent paradox: many of us love and respect the couple who reared us yet also resent the hell out of them. But social psychologist Susan Newman, author of Nobody's Baby Now (Walker & Co.), exhorts adult children to build a meaningful friendship with Mom and Dad. In researching her book, Newman interviewed 150 adults, ages 27 to 55, to investigate the tension between parents and children as they grow older. TIME spoke with Newman about barriers to a friendship with your folks and why it's critical to overcome the hurdles...
...recognize this doesn’t mean it’s over,” Newman said. “We’re going to have to continue to be very prudent going forward...
...Harvard Corporation’s decision not to increase endowment payout for the next fiscal year will put the squeeze on the school as it is just beginning to emerge from its fiscal woes, although Newman said the school is prepared for such a decrease in revenue...
...made it out of its deficit, and Newman said the school has learned important lessons from the last crisis and would be in better shape to handle similar trouble due to improvements it has made...
...points primarily to the school’s new accounting software, which allows department managers and the school’s administrators to keep week-by-week tabs on each area’s fiscal performance. Newman added that the school has set up a four-member administrative gifts policy committee to carefully review new gifts, and she said the school’s administration also has begun to review all contracts of over...