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Aunt Lena, I apologize. If I had done right by you, I would have given you a cute title like "the Baby Whisperer," and you would be strutting your stuff on the Today show. But now it's too late. British nanny Tracy Hogg has beat us to it, dispensing commonsense advice in an overhyped package. Hogg's book, Secrets of the Baby Whisperer (Ballantine Books), is the latest phenomenon in the business of selling parenting advice to the sleep deprived. Hogg knows from her years as a baby nurse to the rich, powerful (and apparently clueless) Hollywood elite that...
...Hogg's claim isn't that she "whispers" to babies but that she listens to them and "reads" their language. She helps decode it for parents, who might not hear the difference between a "hungry" and a "tired" cry. Hogg urges parents to put babies on a schedule, though she doesn't call it that--she calls it a "structured routine." It's old but sensible advice. Applying a flexible schedule that is based on a baby's natural rhythms of eating, activity, napping and sleeping at night will help strip away that layer of chaos that can reign...
After 12 years as a public company, business-travel agency Hogg Robinson recently booked a novel trip for itself: a one-way flight out of the London Stock Exchange. CEO David Radcliffe led a $450 million management buyout of the firm, a move he saw as the best solution to an increasingly common dilemma. Though Hogg Robinson was profitable--it had revenues of $2.63 billion last year--its share price had slumped because investors considered the company too small to offer "exciting double-digit growth," as Radcliffe explains. With a depressed stock price, the company found it hard to grow...
...Hogg Robinson's decision is part of a surprising trend at a time when start-up companies still dream of going public. Even so, a growing number of European firms--mostly from old-economy sectors--are delisting from stock exchanges. Freed from having to please investors every quarter, many smaller companies find it easier to grow--or reinvent themselves--when they are financed by private-equity funds and banks instead. The buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Robert recently created a $3 billion European fund and started scouting the Old World for new privatization deals. "There are lots of opportunities here," explains...
...movie guts the one aspect of the show that made it more than a cornpone car chase--two good ole boys "fightin' the system like two modern-day Robin Hoods," as the theme song (which the movie has jettisoned) said. The Dukes' eight-cylinder jousts with the corrupt Boss Hogg and his henchmen showed how antiestablishmentarianism had percolated, post-Watergate, into America's most conservative precincts, prefiguring the antigovernment politics of the coming decades (whereas the movie just shows that John Schneider and Tom Wopat need to fire their agents). Look at the Dukes' hot rod, the General Lee, with...