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...mother of three young children and a professional in the growing field of "work/life quality" as a partner in the accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. Levin counsels employees who are overwhelmed by their work and family obligations to carefully review their commitments--not only at the office but at home and in the community too--and start paring them down. "It's not about getting up earlier in the morning so you can get more done," she says. "It's about saying no and making choices." Working parents, she adds, should be fully home when they're home...
...start by leaving work, and thoughts of work, behind as soon as we start the trip home. Think about how to make the most of the upcoming time with your family. And do something to get yourself in a good mood, whether it's listening to music in the car or reading a novel on the train, rather than returning calls on the cell phone. When you get home, change out of your work clothes, let the machine take your calls, and stay away from e-mail...
...also sneak away from work and family occasionally to feed their own interests and have fun. I keep a basketball in the trunk of my car just for this purpose. The way I see it, there are things I may never be able to fix, at work or at home, but at least I can work on my jump shot...
...Goldstein, purports to be an on-the-spot account of the sad tryst of a girl and her stepfather--the "real" story behind Humbert's besotted ravings in a book titled Lolita. We are told that Dolores ("Lolita") Maze (not Haze) met Humbert Guibert (not Humbert) in the home of her mother Isabel (not Charlotte); that Humbert took a fancy to Lo; that he married the mother to get to the daughter; that on the mother's death, Hum and Lo took to the open road, fitfully pursued by the girl's true love, playwright Gerry Sue Filthy (not Clare...
...setting is Turow's fictional Kindle County, the by now palpable Midwestern arena of his previous best sellers and, fairly transparently, Turow's home turf of Cook County, Ill. For proper distancing, Robbie's outlandish tale is narrated with understated sympathy by his lawyer, a squeaky-clean member of the bar who is named after his distinguished ancestor, the colonial Virginian George Mason. Robbie's foil is Evon Miller, the latest iteration of one of page and screen's most popular new types: the female FBI agent...