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...terrible to wake up and wonder why this person's head is on the other pillow," confesses a New York City writer who slept with about two dozen women in the first months after his divorce. "It was painful for them and me too." Says a Chicago bar owner: "All the happy-go-lucky singles in my place tell me that they do not want a relationship. Then six months later they are engaged." A businessman in the Boston area, currently in mid-divorce, is swearing off the one-night stand. "I don't want it, don't need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Revolution Is Over | 2/18/2008 | See Source »

...tenth - 13% - said the incident wasn't serious enough to report. When they did report the incidents, the response from school staffs was positive about 70% of the time. That's not enough - it should be 100% - but it belies the dire picture painted by gay groups in the wake of King's killing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prosecuting the Gay Teen Murder | 2/18/2008 | See Source »

...always a catch: if you don’t want to sound like the name-dropping tool at a Rhodes Scholar cocktail schmooze, you’ve got to be ready to offer a little something more than a list of proper nouns. And sometimes, in the wake of “God Bless This Mess,” Crow’s erudite message gets a little garbled. It’s not clear, for instance, whether “Gasoline” is advocating a cut-back on emissions or a populist cut in oil prices (which would...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sheryl Crow | 2/15/2008 | See Source »

...When one is bad, I can’t help but wonder if I’m better off saving the sixty hours of “Lost” that await me and getting a full recap come 2010. For now, I’ll wait. When I wake up in the middle of the night wondering who the hell Jacob is or how on earth a tropical island can have polar bears, I’ll try to think of my thesis instead. Besides, how would I sum up this outrageous piece of work to anyone who?...

Author: By Allie T. Pape, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No Love 'Lost': One Fan's Faith | 2/15/2008 | See Source »

...Even better, no one saw this coming; last year, the Hornets didn't even have a winning record, and for much of the two previous seasons, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, they played most of their games in Oklahoma City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Orleans' Basketball Woes | 2/15/2008 | See Source »

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