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...Television, the pros say, is a women's medium. Women watch more prime-time TV and are believed to make more household viewing choices. But you wouldn't have known it by watching lately. Like post-9/11 politics, much post-9/11 TV has been manly and daddy-oriented. The networks have churned out CSI clones that have mostly male leads. After a ratings drop-off among young men last fall, executives blamed new shows starring women (Karen Sisco, Miss Match). Family sitcoms hew to the formula of lumpy guy with hot, smart but secondary wife. Bush's answer...
...credit cards with MBNA, and Discover is pursuing new partners too. The change comes at a time when consumers are already overwhelmed with pitches for new plastic--in the second quarter, a record 1.4 billion mailings went out, according to direct-mail tracker Synovate. That means the average household received 6 offers a month, up from 4.6 a year ago. New competition may mean more choice when it comes to rewards programs, says David Robertson, publisher of the industry-tracking Nilson Report, but don't expect better deals on annual fees or financing, which aren't likely to improve...
...thrilled to be living in the Dudley Co-op, a two-house undergrad collective in which all of us are responsible for cooking, cleaning and performing all other duties necessary for a well-functioning household. It strikes me as an excellent model for what theater artists are always seeking: collaboration—making the active choice to commit time, thought and energy to a communal project built on a common purpose...
...parties scrambled to out-fox and outspend each other, voters in marginals struggled to wade through the detail. "I know I should care about who's in charge of the country," said 22-year-old paramedic Gemma McMahon in Deakin, "but with work and study and running a household, I'm just too busy...
...here that George W. Bush isn't a good dad. In fact, from the look of things, his spirited daughters have inherited the best of their mother's congeniality and their dad's easy-going sense of humor. But when it comes to the current state of our national household - children living in poverty, adults unable to secure employment, and more than 1000 dead on foreign soil - it may be time for the president to take off the iron glove and hold a house meeting...