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...DATE RATERS If you're wondering whether Goliath279 is really the 6-ft.-tall Gap model he claims to be, sites like Lemondate.com and Truedater.com offer consumer protection. Posting reviews of online-dating candidates by people who have met them, the sites help you avoid mistaking a married man for an eligible bachelor...
After 15 years together, my male partner and I are just friends, but I love him dearly. I feel he's given me the best years of his youth, and I have left everything to him in a will. I want to avoid probate, but our condo, worth about $350,000, is in my name. I don't want to add him, as I am afraid that if our lives go in different directions, he will force me to sell. I'm 59, four years from retirement and plan to sell and move to a smaller house in New Mexico...
They also aim to show, not tell. Moore is a terrific salesman for his point of view, but the new dockers avoid the omniscient narrator, who conjures up dusty memories of driver-safety films. "Documentaries used to have that should factor," says Dana Adam Shapiro, who co-directed Murderball with Henry Alex Rubin. "Like, you should know about the horrors of Vietnam. But it wasn't entertaining. We wanted to make a movie about these quadriplegics, not a movie about quadriplegia. We wanted it told from their perspective, which is why we shot much of the film from a wheelchair...
...taught at Universal is one that is free of provincial baggage. Certain features of regional Islam - arranged marriages, a ban on women driving - are not part of the program here. "It's a constant battle, separating cultural issues from religious values," says Siddiqui. The school does teach how to avoid being seduced by those parts of American culture many parents consider un-Islamic. "What we're up against in movies, television and music," she says, "is profanity, sex and violence. The whole teenage phenomenon in the U.S. is one of personal power - claiming their own voice, their own soul, their...
...there may be other reasons for Skocpol’s interest in Harvard’s current conflict. Despite Skocpol’s criticisms, she cares very deeply about the institution and her tendency to get caught up in its affairs is a reflection of her desire to help avoid tension and hostility like that which surrounded her tenure experience, Waters says...