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Karr isn't the only memoir writer who's mad as hell. Jeannette Walls, author of The Glass Castle, says she has been losing sleep over it. "What he did is wrong on so many levels, and I'm outraged by it," she fumes. "He lied. Writing a memoir, especially one like he was supposed to have done--or one like I did--is a very personal thing. You sit down, and you write about your innermost feelings and your experiences, and you share them with your readers. When it succeeds, it's a very intimate exchange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trouble With Memoirs | 1/15/2006 | See Source »

Oscar-winning actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson, 46, trades corsets and curls for padding and a monobrow in her new film about an ugly but magical child minder, Nanny McPhee. Over tea, the Briton tells TIME's Rebecca Winters Keegan why Mary Poppins got it wrong, why becoming a parent at age 40 requires a bit of extra effort and why she stores her Oscars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Emma Thompson | 1/15/2006 | See Source »

...extra temptations?which the communists largely eradicated after taking power in 1949?have wreaked havoc on marriages, with 1.6 million Chinese couples divorcing in 2004, a 21% rise from the year before, according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs. "Before in society, we had a sense of right and wrong," says the China Sexology Association's Hu. "Now, we can do whatever we want. But do we have any moral standards left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex, Please?We're Young and Chinese | 1/15/2006 | See Source »

...solicitor general under President Reagan. While in that post, Fried briefly served as Alito’s boss. In his testimony, Fried said that he did not believe Alito would launch a frontal assault on Roe v. Wade. But, he twice repeated: “I could be quite wrong...

Author: By Javier C. Hernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tribe to Senate: 'Justice Alito' Would Reduce Abortion Rights to 'Hollow Shell' | 1/14/2006 | See Source »

...Thus the rash TV pastor's pet project would seem to have survived his latest outburst. But his credibility among a watching public may be another matter. The day before the apology was accepted, the Southern Baptists' Land put it this way: "He was wrong, and he said hurtful things, and he?s apologized for them, and that?s the Christian thing." But, Land continued, "Forgiveness is one thing and restoration is another. If I do something really stupid and wrong and I apologize for it, most will forgive me; but they will not be quite as trusting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Was Robertson Thinking? | 1/13/2006 | See Source »

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