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Hans Mikkelsen ’06 picks up the slack where Harvard has dropped the ball...
...million TV households in America, 63% are cable subscribers. But that percentage is going in the same direction as the coaxial cable: down. A new study by J.D. Power & Associates identifies a clear trend: every year cable loses another 2% oftotal viewers, and satellite picks up the slack. In 1996 only 5 million viewers owned a dish; today the number is closer to 17 million...
...Because of improvements, inventive ideas, setting appliances into cabinetry, we can integrate all these activities into one continuing, flowing space that merges through to the kitchen." The disappearance of interior walls leaves you wondering just what's holding the house up (relax--new building materials have taken up the slack), but it's part of a bigger design trend to bring what is inevitably called a good "flow" to the house. It's all about how these satellite areas connect to one another and the rest of the floor plan...
Pearson, a star columnist at the London Evening Standard, makes Kate one of those superwomen who think they would like a wife. But when Kate's husband Rich, a low-energy architect, picks up the household slack, she loses interest in him. She is hard-wired to want a hunter-gatherer and nearly has an affair with one, an alpha millionaire client. But she cheats on her boss instead, stealing "Illicit Mummy Time," which requires "the same lies to get away for the tryst, the same burst of fulfillment and, of course, the guilt...
What then can friends do if they want to remain on good terms with both parties? First, give it time, say therapists. Cut both spouses some slack until the waves of anger and grief subside a little. Let them know, gently, that you intend to be friends with each of them. "Early on in the separation, there are going to be strong feelings, and you need to be a shoulder to cry on," says the Rev. Scott Stevens, a licensed marriage and family therapist in Willimantic, Conn. "But if after a few months the venting is not getting better, tell...