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...uneasy peace has brooded over the 2.3-million-member Episcopal Church of the U.S.A. and its global parent body, the 77-million-member Anglican Communion, for some four years now. And a key voice vote Tuesday evening at the American bishops' conference in New Orleans has set up a decisive showdown that could well end the unity of the Communion...
Pity poor Kleenex. The flagship tissue of Kimberly-Clark, its brand name has skipped the company town and now lives a cheap and licentious life of common usage. Despite the best protective efforts of its parent, Kleenex sleeps with all comers. It has become a corporate ne’er-do-well: it has become generic...
...join Venezuela and put our clocks back 30 minutes this fall - and leave them there [Sept. 3]? The one-hour change each fall and spring is an unnecessary annoyance. Although it was a useful idea for wartime factory workers, today it is only a pain. Ask any parent with young children. Georgia Gibbs, Victoria, Canada...
Like the adult characters' smoking and sexism, this is not model behavior. But does it make you a terrible parent to pine, just a little, for a time when the job was less all consuming? Contrast Mad Men with HBO's couples-therapy drama Tell Me You Love Me, in which, despite the buzz over its explicit sex scenes, the most interesting couple is the pair who never have sex. Dave (Tim DeKay) and Katie (Ally Walker) are devoted parents who haven't been intimate in a year--in part, simply because of the exhaustion of everyday chores and staying...
...entire life. Granted, it's a false choice to say that it's either sexless marriage or shipping the runts off to CBS reality camp. But beyond the cheap shock, I suspect Kid Nation has touched on a real anxiety in the era of extreme parenting: the horror, and yet the appeal, of children having lives separate from Mom and Dad's. Because even to a good parent, sometimes "kid nation" can sound like America by another name...