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...joke has tarnished under the weight of what Updike has described as his “ponderously growing oeuvre, dragging behind [him] like an ever-heavier tail.” But even half a century later, the image remains an apt one for the small-town high-achiever who grappled through Harvard and, for the 50 years since, has sustained a steady pace across the page...
...down family dinners offer the best opportunity for building good eating habits. Not only do they enable you to keep an eye on what your child eats, but they also tend to be more well-rounded than meals eaten on the run, and kids are less apt to bolt them down. Dinnertime talk can also reveal emotional issues that might underlie overeating. If you can't do it every night, aim for three or four family dinners a week. Satter stresses that even snacks should be "structured, sit-down [meals] served at set times" with no grazing in between...
...Lessons of D-day Sixty years ago, America and its allies launched the greatest invasion in history. Are there echoes of that noble struggle in Iraq, or is Vietnam a more apt analogy...
This is Bush's own crusade, in which his faith remains steadfast. To critics who charge that he has dragged the country into another Vietnam, he responds that World War II is the more apt analogy. "America has done this kind of work before," he says. "We lifted up the defeated nations of Japan and Germany and stood with them as they built representative governments ... America today accepts the challenge of helping Iraq in the same spirit, for their sake and our own." Perhaps the greatest difference is that this time the actual invasion feels like the easy part. "While...
...upfront presentation to advertisers at Madison Square Garden opened with a performance by Lenny Kravitz, an especially apt choice given how much TV-commercial licensing of his songs has done for his career. I'm not quite sure who gets really excited anymore about Kravitz, who's less a rock star than a celebrity who does a believable rock-star impersonation. Nonetheless, among the business-suited throng packing the Garden, more than one middle-aged white ad man was doing that little baby-boomer head bob and tapping his feet to "Fly Away," to show the young associates gunning...