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...most about the parents they never see, the ones who show up faithfully pose a whole different set of challenges. Leaving aside the monster parents who seem to have been born to torment the teacher, even "good" parents can have bad days when their virtues exceed their boundaries: the eager parent who pushes too hard, the protective parent who defends the cheater, the homework helper who takes over, the tireless advocate who loses sight of the fact that there are other kids in the class too. "I could summarize in one sentence what teachers hate about parents," says the head...
Carroll’s earlier memoirs, The Basketball Diaries and Forced Entries (1987), drew criticism from one New York Times reviewer who said Carroll was too eager to sacrifice literary value for shock value. “One is aware almost throughout that the author is more intelligent than he appears,” wrote Christopher Lehmann-Haupt...
...story centers on the tempestuous love/hate relationship between American Will Darcy and Indian Lalita Bakshi. He is the son of a wealthy hotel family; she is an independent and headstrong daughter of a mother eager to marry her and her three sisters off to well-established young bachelors. The pair meets in Amritsar, India at the wedding of a mutual acquaintance and sparks immediately fly. The storyline should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with Jane Austen, or any standard boy-meets-girl Hollywood romance, really; what makes this film so enjoyable is its marriage of Eastern style...
Cambridge police officers blockaded the street for ten minutes while Zeta-Jones waved to the crowd of approximately 200 eager fans and received kisses from Ferrante and Gale Rosen. Pudding cast members—posed around the three—sang verses of the show’s theme song, “Terms of Frontierment...
...doctor turned legislator is leaving in 2006, keeping his long-standing plans to retire from the Senate after two terms. Frist has to conduct a delicate balancing act: Push Bush's agenda while making a name for himself. There's already been some grumbling that he's too eager to raise his profile, by attending things like the World Economic Forum in Davos, rather than directing legislation. The leadership post gives Frist a megaphone to broadcast his ideas, but also the responsibility and potential blame if he can't get Bush's proposals through Congress...