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...shedding 100,000 workers a month since the beginning of the year. Last week Winstar Communications, once a wireless wonder, hung up on 2,000 employees--44% of its staff. TiVo, Sycamore Networks and Extreme Networks added more bodies to the tech sector's growing pile. AOL Time Warner, parent of TIME, has announced 2,400 job cuts in response to the slowing economy and pressure from Wall Street. By week's end unemployment had hit 4.3%, a slight but ominous rise. Worse, job creation was down, more evidence that recession is at hand...
...divorced parent of a 12-year-old, I have fumbled for answers to my daughter's tentative queries about romance. "It's like being an actor in the best movie you've ever seen, but you never get to see the script, and no one will tell you how the movie ends," I told her. This didn't have quite the elucidating effect I was looking for. She looked as if she wanted to call her agent immediately...
...home outside London. Jagger was a lousy husband, Hall says, but he remains a great father to their four children, ages 3 to 17. After singer Melissa Etheridge and filmmaker Julie Cypher separated last year, they bought back-to-back houses in Los Angeles. The children they co-parent, ages 4 and 2, move between homes every four days--and at any time in between. "They truck through the back fence. It's very fluid," says Cypher. "We don't want a child to have to get on an airplane to see the other parent...
...Netters' five-bedroom Los Angeles home. Perry and Esther rented an apartment around the corner and swapped residences every Monday. "Children need stability, and we were trying to provide that," says Perry. The arrangement cushioned the impact of the separation on the Netter children. Though only one parent lived with them at a time, "my life didn't change much," says their oldest child, Elisheva, now 15. "My parents were busy before. With birdnesting, it seemed like one was having more meetings than the other...
...best part of the Swiss system is that it is student, parent and business driven. No bureaucrat armed with a state mandated aptitude test makes these decisions for them. What better way to encourage parental involvement; let the parents and students decide for themselves. I agree with Ross G. Douthat ’02 that it will never happen. But I can dream, can?...