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David, who makes money somehow in real estate, might be her tutor in that regard. He takes her to concerts and auctions, and for a weekend at Oxford. Yes, he wants to go to bed with her, but that's a pleasure she has decided to defer till she's 17. All she asks is that, when the time comes, David should "treat me like an adult." (Apres-sex, she remarks, with more curiosity than regret, "All that poetry, and all those songs, about something that lasts no time at all.") Father Jack should be opposed to David...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carey Mulligan in An Education: A Star Is Born | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

There are many parallels between your last book, a graphic novel called The Three Incestuous Sisters, and Her Fearful Symmetry. Is there something in the way that sisters interact, in your mind, that makes those relationships fertile ground for stories to grow out of? Yes, though I should hasten to add that my relationship with my own sisters is idyllic and lovely. However, there's so much potential for rivalry and competition. But then there are all the upsides of companionship and that "Who knows you better than your sister?" feeling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Audrey Niffenegger on Her Ghostly New Novel | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

...Terri continues her rampage, finally getting Quinn to agree to giving up her baby but quashing the cheerleader’s extortion attempt. Ken proposes, and it’s a genuinely sweet moment. We’d feel sorry for him … except that Emma says yes...

Author: By Luis Urbina | Title: Recap: "Vitamin D" | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

...Gamely venturing into this sea of snark, a brave minority offers fulsome compliments of Obama and the Nobel Committee's judgment. "Barack Obama? Nobel Prize for Peace? Yes, we can. Good choice. Hope and change should be encouraged," declares @smackfairy. @arkeis says, "Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize! I might just cry with joy *but I won't*. I still believe in him ... but ... it's time to get moving dude." (Read "Why Winning the Nobel Peace Prize Could Hurt Obama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Twitterers Thought of Giving Obama the Prize | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

...allies. (Neither Moscow nor Beijing believes Iran is building nuclear weapons, even if they're sympathetic to Western concerns over the need for greater safeguards against it doing so.) The question would then become whether the West is prepared to take Iran's less than satisfactory "yes" for an answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: Can the U.S. Take 'Yes, But' for an Answer? | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

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