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...system of counting is imperfect, the former mayors said, especially when it comes to counting college students...

Author: By Benjana Guraziu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: In Panel, Mayors Laud 2010 Census | 4/22/2010 | See Source »

...these costs, shopping period doesn’t even return a benefit—only a perceived one. If the claim is that pre-registration will result in more dissatisfaction with classes, we should remember that shopping is imperfect as well: Very few students can say that they have liked every single class they have taken at Harvard. Pre-registering would not lead to a rash of unhappiness any more than it has at the thousands of other schools with no shopping week—many of which are notoriously happier than...

Author: By Nathaniel S. Rakich | Title: Close Up Shopping | 4/21/2010 | See Source »

...novel, Imperfect Birds (Riverhead; 278 pages), functions in reverse, suggesting all the terror of the big picture. It's about Elizabeth and James, liberal do-gooders from Marin County, California (and the subjects of her previous novels Rosie and Crooked Little Heart), and their daughter Rosie. At 17, Rosie is "black-haired, strapping and fabulous" and an academic high achiever, but she does every drug under the sun, including her peers' parentally dispensed Adderall. The book is a stark illustration of deception, denial and parents' desperate desire to stay loved. You emerge from its last bittersweet pages ready to drug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tough Love | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

...write everything as a wake-up call," she says. "To myself and others, to anyone who may have gotten tired of hitting the snooze button." Imperfect Birds is a well-informed wake-up call. Lamott is a recovering alcoholic, sober since 1986, and has just ushered her son Sam through his high school years in a bohemian enclave of Marin where drugs are there for the asking. Kids who remind her of Rosie are everywhere she turns. On this Sunday morning, she has just returned from a hike to the ocean, where she watched a search-and-rescue team look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tough Love | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

...also a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine and the best-selling author of two other books: “Better: A Surgeon’s Notes On Performance” and “Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science”—says he is a surgeon first. But he has also been distinguished for his writing...

Author: By Alyssa A. Botelho, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Surgeon Extols the Virtue of Checklists | 4/1/2010 | See Source »

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