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...think the NBA would applaud modestly dressed role models such as SHAQUILLE O'NEAL and KOBE BRYANT. But no. The two Los Angeles Lakers stars were among at least nine players fined $5,000 apiece by the NBA for wearing shorts too long. Seems the rule is that basketball shorts must stop at least an inch above the knee. It was enforced before, in 1997, when officials thought shorts were overly baggy-saggy a la hip-hop fashion, violating "the integrity of the uniform," in the words of the NBA's Tim Frank. Shaq says he refuses to wear "John...
What spells the difference between couples like the Lowrys and those who feel torn apart by the burden? One factor is a couple's goals at the start of their marriage, suggests David Leckey, 53, a writer and the husband of Margaret Neal, 49, a gerontologist who studies caregiving. "If you go into a marriage thinking, 'This is about me and my wife,' family is a drag on that. We're into the idea of the extended family, that it's all part of the package," he says of his marriage of 13 years. Three years ago, Leckey supported...
Leckey and Neal's children are grown, but couples like the Lowrys and the Mileckis, who work and take care of kids as well as parents, are surveyed in a new study by Margaret B. Neal and her colleague Leslie B. Hammer of Portland State University. In Dual-Earner Couples in the Sandwiched Generation: How They Manage Their Work and Family Demands, the authors identify strategies that couples adopt to handle their stress. They either increase their emotional resources or decrease the demands on themselves...
Existence is based entirely on human kind’s subjective view of reality. So what happens when that reality is shifted to someone else’s reality? That is precisely the question that Focus, directed by Neal Slavin and based upon the novel by Arthur Miller, attempts to address. The story focuses on Lawrence Newman, a circumstantial bigot played by William H. Macy (Magnolia, Psycho) who purchases a new pair of glasses which make him look like a Jew to the outside world. All sorts of unsavory consequences ensue. Newman gets demoted at work, ironically just after...
...Magic: Talented and hungry squad led by Tracy McGrady and Grant Hill. 2. Wizards: Even if for only the first 10 games. 3. Lakers: The way Shaquille O'Neal changes a game is marvelous...