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What's most striking about the divorce boom is that it's overwhelmingly women who terminate their marriage. The biggest reason? Wandering husbands. China's market economy has brought with it extra cash to support a mistress, an indulgence common enough during the concubine-laden imperial days but nearly impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking Up Is Easy To Do | 10/30/2006 | See Source »

That similarity is striking because both Brooks and Ogletree quote Du Bois out of order. In his 1905 Niagara Movement address, Du Bois mentioned free speech first, education sixth, “manhood suffrage” third, and “caste distinctions” fourth.

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: More Similarities in Law Prof's Book | 10/27/2006 | See Source »

Shanghai is lauded as China's most sophisticated destination. Beijing is painted with a less glamorous brush. One is a booming metropolis where fashionistas sip mint juleps while overlooking the Bund.[an error occurred while processing this directive] The other is a gritty city where malcontent punks swig beer in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Capital Gains | 10/26/2006 | See Source »

Relate the school to life,” wrote educational philosopher John Dewey in 1907, “and all studies are of necessity correlated.”In 2006, the Harvard Task Force on General Education, a small committee chosen to rethink last year’s General Education...

Author: By Kimberly E. Gittleson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A New Age of Old School | 10/25/2006 | See Source »

And The Crimson reported Friday morning that one of the two paintings bore a striking resemblance to Stuart’s 1816 portrait of Kirkland. The other is a 1790 portrait of a British nobleman by the American artist John Singleton Copley.

Author: By Katherine M. Gray, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: President Kirkland Is Coming Home | 10/23/2006 | See Source »

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