Word: perfectible
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...degrees from Ivy League schools, a long stint under her belt as a columnist for the Washington Post and a bestselling anthology, Mommy Wars, which took on the feminine work- life balance myth by embracing the fact that most women's jobs and lives will never be perfect. But her successful present belies a haunting past: In her new memoir, Crazy Love, Steiner reveals how she fell in love with and married a man who beat her regularly and nearly killed her. TIME spoke to Steiner about why she decided to write about the most painful period in her life...
...both Mommy Wars and Crazy Love is candor. You have to push yourself to be very honest. Even about things you don't like about yourself. In a nutshell, the reason I wrote Mommy Wars is because I got so tired of women saying, "My life is so perfect. Everything is perfect" when no - it actually is not. Candor is so valuable. With domestic violence, candor is the total answer; it is a syndrome that is made worse by its bedrock - secrecy...
...time, donating her eggs to an infertile couple seemed like the perfect solution for Marilyn Drake's money troubles. A single donation helped her finance her divorce. Then she did it four more times over the course of two years, as she struggled to raise two children...
...years ago, or even five months ago. Recently, the 40+ crowd has begun to invade Facebook, previously the domain of young adults, with the eagerness and awe of a baby-boomer learning to use the DVR for the first time. In their wake, they leave behind wall posts endearingly perfect in their grammatical construction and signatures with their full name (just in case you missed it next to their photo thumbnail...
...high-quality journalistic output, or the downright terrifying onset of an epoch of public corruption unchecked by an active press. The talent that enters the industry will be the very same; their desire to build reputation and trust will continue. Their principles and standards of conduct, never perfect and always human, will carry over into the new economy. Even the customers of the news—citizens desirous of being well informed or requiring certain information—will stay constant. Only the format will change. To the young people who discover those formats: Cheers!—you earned...