Word: essays
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Nancy Gibbs' humorous essay really hits the mark on the difficulty women face in choosing their titles and surnames [Oct. 26]. It makes no difference to me whether a woman keeps her name or takes her husband's. I wonder, however, in the interest of consistency, if Gibbs received an engagement ring from her husband. After all, if we can dispense with one outmoded patriarchal tradition, why not dispense with them...
...Shaking hands is just a way for us to increase the risk of getting ill," says Bob McCormack, the chief medical officer for the Canadian Olympic team. Vancouver is hosting the 2010 Winter Games, and the Canadians may refuse to high-five their guests? Chilly. (See TIME's photo-essay "Soccer in the Time of Swine...
...TIME's photo-essay "Victory in Pakistan Lawyers' Movement...
...conscious control of the hand to let it discover images that flowed from the unconscious. With that, some key turned inside him, allowing him to translate impressions of nature and the body and childhood memories of Armenia into an abstract language of longing and release. (See TIME's photo-essay "Cézanne and Beyond...
...Prime Minister, who remains a crucial national decision maker. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did not even see Putin when she was in Moscow recently, because the Administration did not coordinate the trip with his office; he was off signing an energy deal in China. (See TIME's photo-essay "Vladimir Putin: Action Figure...