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The study coordinators admit spanking is a sensitive subject (no pun intended). Many parents are torn between carrying on their own parents? tried-and-true disciplinary practices and their discomfort with the idea of hitting their kids. Fierce opponents of spanking compare it to child abuse - although logically, a quick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Survey Gives Children Something to Cry About | 10/5/2000 | See Source »

The New York Times once called the farm "historic literary territory." White would have trembled at the tag. In his will, he stipulated that the property remain in private hands, to forestall any effort to transform it into a shrine--a prospect he found horrifying. The farm was sold to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: At E.B. White's farm: Where Charlotte Wove | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

Most people don't want to live in a society that actually tries to make life as normal as we pretend. Or a society that stops us from pretending to more normality than we achieve. Not that everybody is an adulterer or a perjurer. Perhaps there are people who have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Outrage That Wasn't | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

Like so much coming out of the White House, Hillary's anger could be one more piece of spin, which makes it hard to interpret her switch to a hyper-smiley face during a flurry of public appearances at the end of last week. If Hillary had been faking anger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shadow Of Her Smile | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

Harvard (6-1, 4-0 Ivy) took Dartmouth (5-2, 3-1 Ivy) out behind the-woodshed for an old-fashioned whuppin, as its defense pitched a shutout and the offense jumped on Dartmouth for big plays early.

Author: By Bryan Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Football Gains Control of Ivies | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

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