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Whereas my mother and her friends had set expectations and understood rules for how to find a boyfriend, today uncertainty reigns. Girls like Sonia and Rosenfeld are forced to turn to He’s Just Not That Into You to figure out how to interpret the meanings of their love interests’ e-mails, facebook messages, and body language. Like the authors of their “Bible,” they become nostalgic, wishing dating was more common and roles more clearly delineated...
...slightest hint of a girl’s voice after 11 o’clock, you were in trouble,” Phil says. Luckily for Phil, other, more tolerant proctors—such as his—helped their boys. “It was well understood that if you were with a girl after 11 at night, you were going to be doing something very quiet,” he says...
...That is not to pretend that the U.S. undertook Iraq for reasons of pure humanitarianism-as America undertook the rescue of other Muslim peoples (with varying success) in Somalia, Bosnia and Kosovo. We would never have invaded Iraq to depose Saddam without 9/11. After 9/11, we finally understood that helping build decent, representative, tolerant societies in the Middle East is ultimately the only way to prevent endless generations of young Arab men from finding fulfillment by crashing airplanes into buildings filled with infidels. Europe has a similar interest, having suffered, with the train bombings in Madrid, the kind of fanatic...
...know. The truth came out, and it came out in spades. The movie helped. I became a poster boy. I think the egregious behavior [of tobacco companies]--that it went on for decades. I think people got angry. There is also a price that comes with that. My daughters understood what I did, and they're very proud. If my marriage had been strong enough, it might have withstood it too. But it didn...
Mahadevan’s research interests center on things that are familiar, but that are often not understood completely. Some of his past research includes the study of how flies stick and unstick themselves to walls...