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...Lady Tiger setting a bad example for her son on national TV? Or setting a good example by dreaming, persevering and being proud? American Idol didn't say. It didn't nudge us to laugh at her or prod us to cry for her. In about two minutes, it just told a quintessentially American story of ambition and desperation and shrinking options, and it left the judgment to us. That's unsettling. That's heartbreaking. And the reality is, that's great TV. --Reported by Amy Lennard Goehner/New York, Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles and Adam Pitluk/Dallas
...guys getting naked and fucking is very horny.” Lincoln’s interest was further piqued when Ryan sent him more photographs that revealed Ryan was circumcised—an anomaly among British men. Ryan doubted his allure, but Lincoln continued to prod. “He told me that he had been in the business for a long time and knew what looks good,” Ryan says. “He thought I had the right look...
...guys getting naked and fucking is very horny.” Lincoln’s interest was further piqued when Ryan sent him more photographs that revealed Ryan was circumcised—an anomaly among British men. Ryan doubted his allure, but Lincoln continued to prod. “He told me that he had been in the business for a long time and knew what looks good,” Ryan says. “He thought I had the right look...
People with borderline-personality disorder form exceedingly volatile relationships, whipsawing between idealizing family and friends and dismissing them as worthless or hateful. They are intensely afraid of being abandoned but react so savagely when a loved one disappoints them that abandonment is often just what they get. Prod these people into therapy, and the same dynamic unfolds there. "At one point, you're their closest friend, and two weeks later, you're the enemy," says Norman Clemens, a psychology professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland...
...Little Woods Elementary School in New Orleans, La. Each fall, for decades, students have dined on the same spread of turkey, Creole gravy, corn-bread dressing and sweet-potato pie. But this week they will add a few new rituals to their holiday meal. Some will poke and prod their turkey meat or smell it to check for rancidity; others plan to pass on the lunch altogether. Most everyone will try to banish the memory of last year's Turkey Day, which ended in a mass pilgrimage to the school nurse...