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...kids to suffer, his boys to miss the good times, his girls to be toughened and, yes, coarsened, by the vulgar realities which nonetheless shaped him. Largely, though, the answers are "medical" ones and they revolve around two factors: first, that it seems a kid who can get straight As in a hard course of college study and 'delay gratification' for the ten years or so of training, can go into business and make a lot more money doing a lot less work than their medical parent does. And second, many docs simply don't want their child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Like Father, Like Daughter? Not if I Can Help It | 10/27/2006 | See Source »

...column, Ilyinsky wrote that the quote “the land literally flowed with milk and honey,” which she cites twice, “comes straight from Louisa May Alcott’s 1868 novel ‘Little Women...

Author: By Anton S. Troianovski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Cuts Columnist for Lifting Material | 10/27/2006 | See Source »

...Derek Bok was not pleased,” recalls Kallaugher. “The caricature is the most potent tool for a cartoonist. It goes straight to the vanity of the politicians with their face...

Author: By Eric W. Lin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Alum Sketches Future of Political Toons | 10/26/2006 | See Source »

...paragraph.Good decision, Yale. You’ve been sprinkled with a healthy dose of destiny dust. Ever since stud sophomore running back Mike McLeod and quarterback Matt Polhemus got picked up by the po-po for fighting some hockey players, the Bulldogs are 3-0 and seem blessed. Two straight overtime wins suggest the protection of a friendly wizard but his magic might run out. Your defense is suspect and an evil witch is brewing a pick-your-poison three-week spell of Brown, Princeton, and Harvard, of course, to close out the season. Work on the antidote during this...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AROUND THE IVIES: Choose Your Own Ivy League Winners | 10/26/2006 | See Source »

...other) inequalities, and in that sense it stands in contrast to the embarrassing New York high court ruling from earlier this year. A skein of twisted reasoning, that 4-2 decision went against marriage equality. In an unpersuasive bit of reverse bigotry, the New York court said that because straight relationships ?are all too often casual or temporary? and can lead to children born out of wedlock, the state needed to help straights by maintaining an exclusive, all-heterosexual club called marriage. Straight people used to be obsessed with the dangers of gay bathhouses; I guess sports bars and hetero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viewpoint: A Separate But Equal Ruling for Gay Marriage | 10/25/2006 | See Source »

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