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Borja himself realizes the root of the problem. In an interview with Hola, he said, "Blanca is the origin of all this. If I go home one day and say, 'Mom, I'm divorced,' I'm sure all this would change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family Feud Imperils a Prized Spanish Art Collection | 12/9/2009 | See Source »

Glee, the hit show about a high school Glee club, has very sharp claws, which is one reason kids like it so much. It is routinely, if hilariously, cruel (the sweet jock is described as so dumb, "he's cheating off a girl who thinks the square root of 4 is rainbows"). But no darker current--let alone motivation for parental monitoring--had occurred to me until I recently heard a bright, earnest youth minister tell a group of high school kids that he thought Glee was "anti-Christian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gospel of Glee: Is It Anti-Christian? | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...root of Harvard University’s name comes from Emmanuel College, Cambridge graduate John Harvard, who bequeathed his estate and half his library collection to what was then a nascent college when he died...

Author: By Amira Abulafi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cambridge Admin. Speaks on Higher Education | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

...Democratic institutions have to weather storms and last over a number of years to take root,” Levistky said, adding that sanctioning the coup posed “an incredibly dangerous precedent...

Author: By Jacob D. Roberts, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Levitsky Leads Honduras Talk | 12/1/2009 | See Source »

...Afghanistan to prevent a cancer from once again spreading through that country. But this same cancer has also taken root in the border region of Pakistan. That is why we need a strategy that works on both sides of the border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Full Transcript of Obama's Speech | 12/1/2009 | See Source »

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