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...what men want too. Bishop says a major concern for expectant fathers is how their relationship with their wives or girlfriends will change. "New mothers are very focused on that baby," he says, "and dads can get left in the dust." That's not only because of the maternal instinct but also because there are some things men simply can't do. A veteran at the Weymouth class told the rookies that his wife originally had trouble breast-feeding. "The milk wasn't coming in," he said. "The baby's weight was dropping. You feel totally helpless." The coaches stress...
...been re-arrested after having already been set free by the prosecutor, Mohammed deliberately put himself at risk again by offering a cell phone to another detainee. The phone was clearly contraband, as indicated by all the signs hanging around the station. But, for Mohammed, the instinct for self-preservation was overridden by the desire to help the other guy call home. That sealed his fate: The police chief saw the act of disobedience, and Mohammed was thrown into a cell where I could no longer...
...surprise, something did. Some of us can forge ahead on instinct or gumption, while some of us—Rupert and I included—need a kickstart in the right direction to get going. When I really thought about doing Teach For America (TFA), I began to wonder how I could do anything else. After a life of excellent education, of incredibly loving and supportive family members, of the best friends anyone could ask for, after four years of Harvard—with its ancient historical duty to its country and its world to send its graduates into service...
...surprised. The last time I was there it also rained quite a bit. That was in August 1969, when I was one of the 400,000 or so people who converged on the place to attend something called the Woodstock festival. I had headed there that time by instinct, like a salmon swimming upstream to spawn, because I was 17 years old and anything involving guitars or hippies demanded my immediate attention. The opposition of my parents, the discouraging weather forecast and traffic so heavy it closed the New York State Thruway meant nothing compared with my need...
...Judy Garland." He was taken with that part of the business. But he was smart enough to know he could cover that with a more offbeat intellectual style. That was his great gift, his ability to connect the more commercial with the abstract. His track record shows that his instinct was always to go with stars and large films. And at one point I said, "Why don't we just get a handheld and go out and do a little black-and-white?" I just don't think he was that interested in that...