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...collaboration. Neither character is a caricature. Kate could be the snooty Bryn Mawr deb of old movies - the one whose class prejudices must be exposed by the working-class hero or heroine - but no, she?s decent, patient and hard-working. (And unexpectedly curvy-sexy, in the mandatory straight-girl-has-to-get-drunk-and-go-crrraaazy scene.) Most of all, Kate wants only what?s best for her baby, even if it drives the surrogate mom nuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Come to Baby Mama | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

...over the last two years. Dong Tao says: "Many Chinese investors used to think China's stock market is like an ATM machine. You type your password in and money comes out." Not anymore. The decline of China's stock market sped up this January, and it fell straight through the past three month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beijing Moves to Revive Stock Markets | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

...pounding or stopping. (Bella's histrionics don't feel at all unrealistic. When you're writing about adolescents, melodrama and realism are the same thing.) Rowling labors over her intricate plots, but Meyer's stories never bend or twist or branch. They have one gear, and she guns it straight ahead till the last page. The way she manages the reader's curiosity, maintaining tension and controlling the flow of information, is simply virtuosic. She creates a compulsion in the reader that is not unvampiric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stephenie Meyer: A New J.K. Rowling? | 4/24/2008 | See Source »

...Columbia, when he played at the top singles slot. Freshmen Alexei Chijoff-Evans and Aba Omodele-Lucien, playing at the fourth and fifth singles spots respectively, continued their strong play as they finish their freshman campaigns. Chijoff-Evans won 6-2, 7-6, while Omodele-Lucien also rolled in straight sets, 6-3, 6-3. Rounding out singles play at the top spot was senior Ashwin Kumar, who defeated his opponent 6-4, 6-4. Despite making no attempt at returning a few early lobs, Kumar used his strong baseline play to wear down his opponent and clinch...

Author: By Lucas A. Paul, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Ends Season With Sweep | 4/23/2008 | See Source »

...people who were the poster children—who had to be, in an important way, because it was our families that were affected,” Barrios said. Mass. State Rep. Elizabeth A. Malia, who is lesbian, said it is imperative to have both LGBT allies and straight allies who are willing to embrace LGBT issues. Diego Sanchez, a transgendered person and the former co-chair of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition, said LGBT politicans must engage in conversation or “we’re never going to come to a solution together...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: LGBT Politicians Open Up | 4/23/2008 | See Source »

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