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During his directorial break, says Spielberg, "I was Mr. Carpool. We had breakfast and dinner together every day. It's full-time work, because every one of our kids is a leader. Seven leaders, no followers--which makes our kitchen at dinnertime look and sound like the House of Commons between the Labour Party and the Tories." This genial chaos ("It's like the Cirque du Soleil over there," says Hanks, a neighbor and close friend) is managed by Capshaw and a live-in couple in the Spielbergs' palatial home in the Los Angeles suburb of Pacific Palisades. "I really...
...tempting to give up that distance prematurely, because, well, there is so little distance after you put the Map of the States puzzle together, say, a million times. I watched many a soccer game whose rules I only dimly grasped, and was, immodestly speaking, one favorite carpool mom, but I never became my daughter's friend. It's tempting to do so when your offspring is crossing over from the things of a child to the things of an adult. I ruled out exchanging any confidences in the crossover areas of drugs, drink and sex, although a parent should counsel...
...Boston city government has a penchant for passing transportation laws that should disappear into the annals of minutiae. First, there was the carpool lane, heralded as the greatest invention since, well, it was invented on the other side of the country...
...divorced the previous spring and Marina now lived alone, except for a tenant on the top floor of the mansion and frequent visits from her children. So we were only able to get her next-door neighbor, George, and her neighbor from across the street, who were about to carpool to work together...
...John Seymour of Our Lady of Victory Church in Compton, Calif., where many of his parishioners face the hard choices every day. "Your main recreation is television. You eat a lot of rice, pasta, potatoes and beans, maybe some green vegetables. You take the bus, or you kind of carpool it, riding with someone and helping with the gas. If you're pregnant, you don't begin prenatal care until your seventh, eighth or ninth month, because even at a public health clinic, it's $25 a visit...