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...master of the art of telling it like it is. For instance: "Sometimes a guy prefers a couchful of football to spending the day out with you. Is that always so wrong?" Unlike Dr. Laura, Hax is only mean when it's absolutely necessary, but then it can be delicious. When an 18-year-old writes that her ex-boyfriend has taken up with some "slut," Hax fires back a lesson about name calling: "I'd go to the beach, but I have to answer some slut who wants my advice. Like how that felt? ... Accept that you hurt like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Straight Talker | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

Tucker has also mounted groundbreaking shows that have put Houston on the map as a city where interesting things can get their start. A good deal of what we know about Josef Sudek, the lyrical Czech master, or Joel Sternfeld, the indispensable guide to the American scene in all its lustrous oddity, or Brassai, the celebrated chronicler of Paris at night, we know because of exhibitions that Tucker organized. "What I've always loved to do is to look at what hasn't already been hammered out," she says. "In art history all the major figures have been researched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Curator: The Exhibitionist | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...took Nixon to go to China, it took a lawyer (she graduated from Harvard) and philosopher (she has a Ph.D.) to legitimize housework. Mendelson once believed that only chumps did not order in, contract out or let it go as they pursued being buff, polished and ready to master the universe. Then one weekend when guests were coming, she blitzed her apartment, making beds with hospital corners, putting out fresh flowers, fixing pasta. She was astonished to find that the psychic reward was high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home Economist: Clean Queen | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...word divine utterance. "And God said, 'Let us. Let usssssss...'" says Jakes, and then digresses: "...One God, but manifest in...three different ways, Father in creation, Son in redemption, Holy Spirit in regeneration. And God said, 'Let usssssss...' One God, not bound by time, not created in time, the master of eternity, the one that Isaiah said 'sits on the circle of the earth and rules.' It's the God that stood there, before there was There, or When, or This, or That. And God said, 'Let usssssss...' It's the omniscient God..." Jakes proceeds like this for some little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spirit Raiser | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

Merrill Lynch U.S. Treasury Inflation Link Index 8.51% Merrill Lynch U.S. Treasury Master...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Sep. 17, 2001 | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

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