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...CNBC's GERALDO RIVERA, the theatrical journalist who longs to be the bride at every wedding, the ham in every sandwich and, lately, the mullah in every mountain. Rivera, a veteran foreign correspondent, talked his way out of his $4 million-a-year contract after parent company NBC declined to send him to Afghanistan. Fox News grabbed the talk-show host and plans to ship him out mid-November. Rivera says he has contacts with the Northern Alliance; he previously reported from Afghanistan on the drug war. "As much as I love my CNBC program, I can't stay anchored...
This routine was burdensome in many ways but especially in the toll it took on the Roberts' marriage of 33 years. "My wife and I started out working as a team," says Jeff, "but gradually she became more and more distant, a little more resentful of the parents and jealous of the time I spent with them." Doris, whose surviving parent--her mother--is still healthy, wishes she could have been more understanding. "Jeff's parents were wonderful people, and this is an obligation you feel in your heart," she says. "Even so, this is a phase of your marriage...
...force." It is also becoming even more common among nonworking spouses, who have traditionally taken this role. Sandra Timmermann, a gerontologist at MetLife's Mature Market Institute, notes that 75% of caregivers are women: "Often just as women are ready to break out with their own careers, an elderly parent's needs intervene. It leaves the marriage in the lurch...
...kids are at their best at this time,” she says, almost like a proud parent. As far as parents go, the kids at Connelly have generally not had the best luck. Many were sexually abused when they were younger, Mossner says, and most never received much guidance, academically or otherwise...
...Arkansas, Governor Mike Huckabee has encouraged trick-or-treaters to engage in church or school activities instead because "we can't handle the panic that comes when a parent encounters a broken Pixy Stick in a sack and thinks it is anthrax." And businesses, fully aware that Halloween is the nation's second biggest shopping holiday, are trying to adapt too. Universal Studios in Orlando, Fla., is continuing its 11-year tradition of Halloween Horror Nights but has changed the name of its dance club from the Blood Bath to the Ooze Zone. Other businesses are erring on the side...