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...dinosaurs and trains and Emma's turned pink and girly with her daughters' playthings. Already frustrated by the barrage of pretty princesses and sparkly fairies marketed to girls, Emma says she reached a breaking point when she watched her daughter open a huge haul of presents at her sixth birthday party. Out of 40 gifts, Emma recalls, only three were items not designed solely for girls - two games and a set of colored pencils. Much of the rest, including several Barbies and a play-makeup set, ended up at a local charity shop, but the shock Emma felt stayed with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not So Pretty in Pink: Are Girls' Toys Too Girly? | 3/31/2010 | See Source »

...Caroline was successful, because she was really working hard for every point,” said sophomore saber Valentin Staller, who garnered a spot on the All-America second team with a sixth place finish this weekend. “What she did extremely well was… sort of getting Becca into a rhythm and then breaking it… She was able to change things up at the last second and score a few points that...

Author: By Catherine E. Coppinger, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Vloka Gets Back At Foe | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

...Brien sensitively profiles the relationship between Mrs. Adams and her husband, who became the sixth president of the United States a decade after Louisa made her journey through Europe. For most of his career, John Quincy Adams was deeply involved in his recreational study of the classics, of “Tacitus and Cicero, Massillon and Madame de Stael, the Bible and Milton”—often to the detriment of his relationship with his wife. Ever since their courtship and marriage in 1797, his bookishness and introversion had sat uncomfortably with his wife’s disposition...

Author: By Grace E. Jackson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: O’Brien’s ‘Mrs. Adams’ Envisions A Nuanced Past | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

When he wasn’t busy producing a new album for Justin Bieber, Usher found the time to record one of his own. Much like it’s hard to take teenage protégé Bieber seriously, Usher’s sixth record, “Raymond v. Raymond,” struggles to make a sophisticated and grown-up statement...

Author: By Thomas J. Snyder, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Usher | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

...Radcliffe heavyweight crew team raced its varsity eight and second varsity eight in the regatta, and both teams fought off strong competition to reach their respective final races on Sunday. The varsity eight finished fifth, and Delgado rowed with the second varsity eight to secure a sixth-place finish...

Author: By Molly E. Kelly, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Finding A New Passion: Rowing | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

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