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...largely due to Hill's floor generalship that Princeton Coach Bill Carmody said, "Harvard controlled the game tonight. It was theirs from the outset...
Does cohabitation really make divorce more likely? Or are the people who cohabit simply the same sort of people who tend to divorce? A devoutly Roman Catholic couple, for example, might skip living together and go straight into a long-running marriage, while a couple who at the outset are doubtful of marriage might live together first before trying a marriage that fails. "It is inappropriate and simplistic to treat cohabitation as the major factor affecting divorce," says Larry Bumpass, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin. "The trend in divorce stretches back over the last hundred years, so clearly...
...foursome didn't mesh from the outset, and Seifert was replaced during the season with insider Mike Lombardi, who likely will return to his off-air research role next season...
...Paris talks without valid passports. "The posturing has begun," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. Neither side supports NATO's peace plan, and agreed to the talks only under threat of Western military action. "They're obviously going to try and strengthen their negotiating positions at the outset," says Calabresi...
Arianna isn't talking, except to say that she wishes Huffington well and to point out that she has written that private sex lives shouldn't be fodder for reporters and rival politicians. Brock defends his piece, saying he told Huffington from the outset--the two met four years ago, just after Huffington lost the most expensive U.S. Senate race in history--that their friendship wouldn't stop Brock from writing an honest article. Friends admit that Huffington was naive to think Esquire would print the touchy-feely piece he had hoped...