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...start considering Mr. All Right? Journalist and NPR commentator Lori Gottlieb raises these questions and others in her new book, Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough (Dutton). TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs discussed the dating scene with Gottlieb. (See TIME's Pictures of the Week...
...damage done to Toyota by its recall of more than 5.3 million autos is clearly accumulating: U.S. sales dropped 16% in January, and the company's stock surrendered $21 billion in value in a single week. The latest development is the automaker's admitting to design problems with the brakes in its prized Prius. The Department of Transportation is threatening the company with fines for being slow to react to the problems - a pair of faults that can cause sudden, dangerous acceleration - though the DOT itself is being criticized for the same reason. Lawyers, who are never slow to react...
...player looks as if he were finger-painted with a steroid-inflated fist, and the style of play is somewhere between a WWE match and a street brawl. It is the ultimate icon of man, and ever since I bought it last term, we spend hours each week playing it, sitting together amidst the pastiche of filth and tactfully un-disposed beer cans that is our common room, more satisfied with our masculinity than a preening gym rat. Which is to say, in other words, just sort...
...peering into the common room in Gollum-like fashion from my doorway (in New Quincy one single, mine, sits alone next to the common room, while the other four are downstairs). Though we use it heavily on weekends, our common room was always dark and empty during the week, as we are a quite busy and prolific suite. This particular time, however, I saw my roommate sitting alone in the common room, watching the football game that he knew no one else cared about, mournfully doing his Chinese homework in silence. We were both so lonely. It was a deeply...
...other words, for me, it was never really about the football. And, in truth, it was never really about tying together the splitting shards of our blocking group either. We were doing fine; we were just a bit too busy during the week. And if it takes these sort of minor “institutions” to get people living busy lives to spend more time together, is this really that bad? Actually, it’s a bit exciting. What’s next for us? Weekly late-night pajama chats with...