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Right. That flimsy excuse cuts it when you're eight. As an adult, you need to pony up for the good stuff - especially for the person who assures you that, no, those pants don't make you look fat, or dutifully gives you good-morning kisses before you've brushed your teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Love Your Partner? Send Him Away! | 12/26/2008 | See Source »

...main contrivance of the plot, hatched by Matt Lopez and fleshed out by longtime Sandler scribe Tim Herlihy. Obliged to read the children to sleep with a bedtime story, Skeeter tosses aside his sister's PC books like The Organic Squirrel Gets a Bike Helmet ("Communist stuff," he opines) and invents a fairy tale of his own: a medieval frolic where he is Sir Fix-a-Lot and Kendall is Sir Butt-kiss. As Skeeter wanly improvs, the kids add impish twists of their own: that the sky will rain gumballs, a dwarf will ruin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bedtime Stories That Miss by a Mile | 12/23/2008 | See Source »

...unlicensed Madoff generals must have had their orders: Mum's the word. Let the investors think what they want about who's placing the buy-and-sell orders. As far as the investors knew, the generals were the geniuses doing the sophisticated, proprietary trading stuff that brought such marvelous returns over the last 40 years. And, in our case, the accounting firm of Halpern & Mantovani, CPA, in Encino, Calif., Chais' chief bean counter, pumped out the quarterly statements as if it were all rock solid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Is Bernie Madoff? Many Investors Didn't Ask | 12/23/2008 | See Source »

Bernstein: Well, that could be anything from very high quality bonds as opposed to, kind of, the junk that has been sold over the last several years and performed well. It could be the stocks of high quality companies as opposed to the riskier stuff. Our focus is on sustainable and demonstrable growth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Merrill Lynch Strategists on the '09 Outlook for Stocks | 12/22/2008 | See Source »

...just to work on my thesis—though everyone thinks it was,” Duncan said to The Crimson in 1987. “My mom runs a school in the ghetto and I was working there, teaching the kids, tutoring, coaching, that kind of stuff...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Obama Picks Harvard Grad for Education Secretary | 12/19/2008 | See Source »

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