Word: subjection
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Michael's three children, who sat just feet away from his casket, have been the subject of intense curiosity and mystery throughout their short lives. The sons and daughter of the world's most intriguing and often bizarre performer, even their exact origins are a mystery. Before today, they have almost always worn masks or veils in the rare times they have been photographed...
...surprise of the memorial organizers, the children took front-row seats at an event broadcast live on every major network as well as around the world. And Paris' words made it abundantly clear that Jackson - a controversial subject in life and in death - was also someone's beloved father. (Hear TIME's top 10 Michael Jackson songs...
This phenomenon - a growing one, as Facebook's demographic rapidly grows gray - is the subject of the (aptly named) site MyParentsJoinedFacebook.com. The product of two Los Angeles 20-somethings, Erika Brooks Adickman and Jeanne Leitenberg, the site collects the downright awkward things that can happen when parents invade your virtual space. (Become a fan of TIME on Facebook...
...Germany's Afghan campaign is the subject of heated debate. Over the past few months, Germany, which usually restricts its troops to peacekeeping and reconstruction efforts, has found itself drawn into a bloody conflict. In the most recent reminder of how dangerous the mission has become, a memorial service was held in the central town of Bad Salzungen on Thursday for three young soldiers killed in an attack near Kunduz, in northern Afghanistan, on June 23. They were the latest casualties of a war that has claimed the lives of 35 German soldiers. At the memorial, senior Cabinet ministers went...
...construct depending less and less on notions of sacrifice and obligation than on the ephemera of romance and happiness as defined by and for its adult principals, the intact, two-parent family remains our cultural ideal, but it exists under constant assault. It is buffeted by affairs and ennui, subject to the eternal American hope for greater happiness, for changing the hand you dealt yourself. Getting married for life, having children and raising them with your partner - this is still the way most Americans are conducting adult life, but the numbers who are moving in a different direction continue...