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...insurmountable. Besides, we really did want it to work. So what went wrong? It's clear to me now that there's a tremendous disconnect between au pairs and host families. Many au pairs are oblivious to the daily rigors that await them in tending to small children. Their main aspiration is to be far away from their own homes; girls just wanna have fun. To them, it's an adventure, not a job. But if it's going to work, it must be a job. Working parents of toddlers have little time or energy to indulge teenage naivete...
...success of the Mills approach is all the more striking because America would seem to need another mall like Main Street needs another Starbucks. The U.S. already has more than 42,000, from strip malls on rural interstates to the gaudy Forum Shops in Las Vegas. That's 20 sq. ft. of shopping-center space for every man, woman and child in the nation. "We just don't need any more traditional shopping, period," says Craig Schmidt, a retail-industry analyst at Merrill Lynch...
America's schools are becoming increasingly diverse. But where kids live can lead to a separation that even a diverse school cannot bridge. For example, at Teaneck High School, a racially diverse school in New Jersey, the doors of opportunity are literal. There are three main entrances at the school, and kids refer to them as "the black door," "the Latino door" and "the white door." Originally, the nicknames came from the fact that those were the doors the various groups entered when the buses dropped them off; even though Teaneck has become more integrated, the terms have stuck...
Dion seems to have adopted the sound that Mariah Carey abandoned several years back--that crushing, crashing, pomp-and-circumstance style that seeks to swallow the listener up in production and emotion. The main problem with Let's Talk About Love is that Dion's sense of dynamics is only a trifle more refined than Saddam Hussein's sense of international protocol. She doesn't build songs, she demolishes them, she overruns them, like Caesar conquering Gaul. Oh, she tries to rein herself in, but to no avail. The song The Reason starts off gently, then, out of nowhere, Dion...
...saturated in blood, sometimes frozen solid. What was called the Crusade in Europe is in large part a story of questionable judgments, dumb luck, trial and error (the easiest way to dig a foxhole in icebound terrain is to start with a hand grenade; the main lesson learned in street fighting, says one survivor, is to stay off the street). "I feel very close to these guys," says Ambrose, who looks and sounds like a hardened field commander yet admits he sometimes cries at the computer...