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...happy families in which Mum and Dad share the reading of bedtime stories and both enjoy spontaneous moments of connection with their children - a shared chuckle in the hallway, a wink at the dinner table - the tribulations of separated parents can seem remote. But if it's not your own family that's breaking apart, then it's probably your neighbor's, or your sibling's or your colleague's. Australia's divorce rate of 42% equates to about 70,000 couples - most with children - splitting each year...
Aside from yesterday’s announcement, the University is keeping mum about the search process...
Damian, a shy 7-year-old still grieving over the death of his mother, has been taken by a friend of his dad's to the Manchester, England, department store where his mum used to work. Left alone for a moment, he feels mournful, bereft--and then panicky, when he thinks he has been deserted again. In an ordinary movie, the situation might call for a freshet of tears to guarantee an audience's instant pity. But in this film, Millions, with this young actor, Alex Etel, subtlety is the key. His eyes mist up, just enough...
...undergraduates, the fact that this debate takes place in the midst of a curricular review could make the situation catastrophic. And there is a second, related failure of leadership at the decanal level; Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby has remained mum throughout the debate, showing a lack of independence and strength—in stark contrast to his predecessor, Jeremy R. Knowles, under whose leadership one could hardly imagine a normally civil faculty so divided...
Crawford wasted no time signaling a change in direction. "Our culture is not to alarm the public," he told employees at a department briefing, referring to the agency's practice of keeping mum about apparent side effects until they have been scientifically confirmed. "That era has passed. What the public is demanding is to know as soon as we know...