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...also care for their kids while their partner works.) The Internet site slowlane.com the leading information clearinghouse for at-home dads, logged 4.5 million hits in 2001, up a million from the year before. "This is a choice that just makes good practical sense for many couples," says Libby Gill, author of last year's how-to guide Stay-at-Home Dads (Plume). With 10 million working women earning more than their husbands in 1999, there's sheer practicality in choosing the partner who makes more money to be the breadwinner. But in many cases, couples choose this role reversal...
...shared with the best lyricists of his generation, no longer applied in a day when songwriters twinned "June" with "broom" and "time" with "mine." Like Parker and Peter Arno, he represented The New Yorker's vanished ages. He vanished from the magazine's history, never once mentioned by Brendan Gill in "Here at The New Yorker's 428 pages. He died May 19, 1971, and by then, His passing was hardly more remarked than the ones he elegized...
Tommy’s previous owner, Mian Iftikhar, had sold Tommy’s to Gill this March because of the loss in profits he suffered when the closing time changed. He said the change lost him 15 to 20 percent of his daily sales...
...Gill bought the restaurant with the 2 a.m. closing time set, and didn’t seem to have any qualms about the conditions of his license...
Originally from the Indian state of Punjab, Gill has been living in Boston for 20 years...