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...first children-of-divorce generation to reach marrying age, today's twenty-and thirtysomethings would much prefer a broken betrothal to a "broken home." Breaking an engagement is difficult, but rather than face it with shame, many almost-unhappily-marrieds see it as a wise, even courageous act. Such "disengaged" individuals have become increasingly visible and vocal. Nobody tracks how many engagements are broken each year, and people in the always-upbeat wedding industry are reluctant to even discuss the issue. However, in an online national poll of 565 single adults conducted in August by Match.com/Zoomerang for TIME...
Professor of Medicine Kenneth L. Baughman, a longtime colleague of Lorell’s, said that the decision was a wise...
...acted a lot more at Harvard. This is my first Harvard directing experience, but I love them both. Pressure wise, I’ve found that directors have the inverse pressures of the actors. As it gets closer to the show, I have less and less to do. On opening night I get to just sit back and watch. When you’re a director you can appreciate all the work the actors put in. In terms of fun, though, acting is more of a release...
...those who found Reagan inscrutable, there will be many who find his letters guileless. In mid-1981, under attack for not laying out his foreign policy, Reagan writes a friend, "I have a foreign policy; I'm working on it. I just don't happen to think it's wise to always stand up and put in quotation marks in front of the world what your foreign policy is." Five years later, on his return from the Reykjavik summit, Reagan sounds a bit frustrated that the Soviets aren't buying his promise to share Star Wars technology in exchange...
...eight presidential campaigns, and the answer is always the same: find a deus ex machina. In my time, these have ranged from Jerry Brown (1976) to Ralph Nader to Lee Iacocca to Mario Cuomo to Al Gore (1992, when Clinton seemed to be stumbling) to Ross Perot. Most were wise enough to stay away; those who jumped in failed...