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...care of kids as well as parents, are surveyed in a new study by Margaret B. Neal and her colleague Leslie B. Hammer of Portland State University. In Dual-Earner Couples in the Sandwiched Generation: How They Manage Their Work and Family Demands, the authors identify strategies that couples adopt to handle their stress. They either increase their emotional resources or decrease the demands on themselves...
...show lies in the actors’ abilities to make their words heard and the effect of those words clear. In this area, the production has its notable flaw. Some of the actors whisk through or swallow their lines; others seem uncomfortable with the accents they have had to adopt. While it is not imperative to catch every bit of dialogue (after all, there’s a lot of it), a few too many viewers at the performance I attended had to turn to their friends for assistance or translation...
Those in the mood for something light and sappy will want to adopt “The Lost Children.” Unrelentingly, mind-numbingly sweet, the song reminds us to care for the unfortunate young ones who still lack love. The crowning touch of blatant manipulation is the presence of children’s happy, natural voices in the background, which artifically adds to the emotional impact...
There is a volcano of frustration among European antiterrorist officials who feel their neighbors don?t share their own commitment to knocking out al-Qaeda. Among investigators, the need for a European arrest warrant, which government leaders have vowed to adopt in early December, has become blazingly obvious. E.U. officials say the measure would radically streamline cross-border investigations. "We actually had better cooperation with German officials six or seven years ago," complains a French official, though he, like many of his Continental colleagues, reserves his deepest concern for Britain. The basic gumshoe logic of parsing al-Qaeda?s European...
...Arabs in the country. I was told that a number of Arabs traveled to Kabul this past week to implore Afghans to join the fight. "We are Arabs," they said. "We have no place to go from here. We will either win or die. If we die, you adopt our children, you adopt our daughters as your sisters. You can also marry our women. Don't hand them over to the U.S. or other countries...