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...columnist for the Sunday Times in London, Shane Watson has spent countless hours detailing her experiences as a woman in this era of Botox, butt lifts and ill-advised miniskirts. In her new book, How to Meet a Man After Forty and Other Midlife Dilemmas Solved, she traces her transition from a happy, middle-aged single woman to a happily married one. Watson spoke to TIME from her home in London.(See TIME's Pictures of the Week...
...spent nearly three weeks in Iran over the winter, talking to clerics, students, street laborers and professionals. People's anger and despair over Ahmadinejad's mismanagement of the economy pulsed throughout Tehran. People were not just discontent; they were punching-the-wall furious. Dismissing opposition to Ahmadinejad as a north Tehran phenomenon, limited only to affluent urban areas, is insulting to the millions of middle-class Iranians who have suffered the most under his tenure. As a rule, affluent Iranians aren't much affected by high inflation and unemployment. As the foreclosure crisis in the U.S. has shown...
...talks is genuine and remains on the table. Perhaps the presidential election in Iran will bring a significant change; perhaps Tehran will negotiate its nuclear program back into compliance with international treaties. But few of those involved in Iran policy expect such events to happen. Dennis Ross has spent the first months of the Obama Administration peeling carrots. Don't be surprised if you see him soon sharpening sticks...
...sudden fame was a lifetime away from the dark hours she and her mother had spent in a crowded lifeboat in the North Atlantic after the Titanic sank in 1912. Dean's 2-year-old brother was discovered aboard the rescue ship Carpathia, and the family--minus Dean's father, who drowned--returned safely to England. They were fortunate. Most of the children traveling in third class died...
...neither case had the growth been smoothly progressive, and in both cases, there would be backsliding. Still, in both cases, God spent enough time in benevolent mode to leave the Scriptures littered with odes to tolerance and understanding, verses that modern believers can focus on, should they choose...