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...true from the false in that circumstance. What interested me was the whole issue of what happens if you have no credibility, what happens if you've been in this circumstance and you've accused your parents of dastardly deeds and then recanted, and then the next thing you come up with, nobody is going to believe you. So I thought that was an interesting idea, the boy who cried wolf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Mystery Writer Sue Grafton | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

...lead into conversations with kids about what beauty is all about. Some talking points: Pencil-thin princess waists are not real. And it's possible to look good without butt-length, straight hair. I'm having a hard time selling my daughter on that last bit. For one thing, she refuses to believe that Tiana has curly hair, despite numerous viewings of the trailer. "She's wearing a wig?" she suggested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disney's Princess: A Breakthrough for Curly Hair | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

...continents away in her future. Nowak was first hooked by the pull of Africa when she was a young child and her father brought home a National Geographic CD of African music. Growing up in East Aurora, a small town outside of Buffalo, NY, this was a thing of rarity. “Where I live is pretty isolated and white. My parents made an effort to expose us to cultural things,” she says...

Author: By Alexander J. Ratner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Most Interesting Seniors: Elizabeth S. Nowak | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

...sling, claiming that he accidentally fell down a flight of stairs and "launched [himself] through a plate-glass window." The audience chuckled. In the Weekend Update segment, Seth Meyers teed Tiger up, noting that his sponsors were sticking with him, "a gesture that only means one thing - women don't watch golf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tiger Gets Mulligan from the TV Networks | 12/10/2009 | See Source »

...just thought this would be a fun thing to do because everybody is working so hard and studying so hard," Hammonds told us, "and the term had seemed so short to so many people, so we just thought this would be a nice thing to make it a little easier...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Santa Hammonds Came to Lamont-Town | 12/10/2009 | See Source »

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