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...looks more like lion-tamer-minus-whip. Some think Williams should step back and let the rift happen. "No one is up to this, however gifted they may be," says Chris Sugden, executive secretary of the group Anglican Mainstream. Then again, Mainstream is a very conservative group that might prefer an immediate split; and if the Communion disintegrates, it is not Sugden who could be known forever as its last Archbishop of Canterbury. Says Bishop Idris Jones, Primate of the Scottish Episcopal Church, "You could say [Williams] is occupying the Christlike position. He is crucified between two extremes and they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saving Grace | 6/7/2007 | See Source »

...enjoy more dealing with your imaginary characters or dealing with people in reality? Do you ever feel imprisoned by your own imagination? -Ju Huang, Stamford, Conn.I prefer the real. The representation of characters in novel is but a thin a slice of what a real person is. It is a kind of trick with smoke and mirrors I can leave my imagination behind when I stand up from my desk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Ian McEwan | 6/7/2007 | See Source »

...pretty high.” Although it is a commute from Hsu’s future home at the University of Texas at Austin Law School to Tau’s new base at the Baylor University College of Medicine, the couple decided that they would prefer to get married before starting graduate school. Unlike some other young marriages, the rationale behind the wedding is unrelated to their religious beliefs. “The important part is how much time you spend with the person, not how long you’ve been together,” Tau says...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Andy Tau & Jocelyn Hsu | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

...Harvard economics department maintains a strong social-scientific orientation and eschews pre-professional courses such as accounting. According to Stock, “many of our students would prefer a business major, but Harvard does not offer a business major so they settle for the second choice of economics...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Low Ranks for Large Fields | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

...rather than together at the dining table. With mothers increasingly working outside the home - and with family size shrinking, as young people hold off on marriage - there's even less reason to eat a healthy Japanese meal at home. "People aren't interested in eating well," says Iwamura. "They prefer to eat what they like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lamenting the Decline of the Home-Cooked Meal in Japan | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

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