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...today have waxed eloquent about the trend of twenty-somethings that spend years in a sheltered limbo between adolescence and adulthood—a 2005 Times article called them “twixters.” People are settling down later, having children later, and it seems we can wait as long as we want to grow up. We are the product of society in which, perhaps more than ever before, age is really just a number. Independence and responsibility, the things that American society tends to associate with adulthood, are embraced by different people at different times...

Author: By Adrienne Y. Lee | Title: Twenty and Counting | 2/19/2010 | See Source »

...press and of course his family. I got a kick out of his warning the press - in particular the paparazzi - to stay away from his wife and kids. The tabloid press has absolutely no rules; they could care less about his feelings or his family. I can't wait for him to go after some photog with a 9-iron. (See pictures of Elin Nordegren, Tiger Woods' wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tiger's Apology: A TIME Discussion | 2/19/2010 | See Source »

Mount soon started drop-in hours to better accommodate students who did not want to wait for an appointment, Saunders says. But Mount has focused most on clarifying to students the necessary steps to reach different careers—a practice Mount says she has learned from working with banks and consulting firms...

Author: By Jillian K. Kushner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Robin Mount Takes Charge of New Office | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

Maybe Harvard would be better off gambling its endowment on horse races, or by purchasing 1,458,209 stocks of a Web site that lets you gamble on horse races online, like Youbet.com. Oh wait...we’ve already done that...

Author: By Gautam S. Kumar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Owns Burritos and Superheroes | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...deficit dilemma without outside funding - a financial helping hand that a full 71% of Germans don't want their government to extend. Though no similar surveys have been conducted in France, leaders there say the public sentiment is much the same. "There are cultural differences for why the French wait for something to happen before reacting when the Germans respond as they see it developing, but opposition to a bailout - if that happens - is likely to be similar in both [countries]," says an adviser to French Economy Minister Christine Lagarde, who commented on background due to the sensitive nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Paris and Berlin, Fury Over a Greek Bailout | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

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