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...done. But Ma Bell's latest split makes the subject topical, especially with WorldCom's having just announced a split as well. I'm not talking about letter stocks either. Those are bust-ups in name only. Management of companies with a tracking stock still answer to the parent's boss. What's the point...
...lack of trying. The Offspring has not only endorsed the controversial music community, but also started selling Napster merchandise on their website. Earlier this year, they went even further, promising to offer free downloads of their entire album Conspiracy of One, much to the consternation of their parent company, Columbia. The suits quickly intervened, the promise was soon revoked and the album is now being released conventionally, but the controversy garnered enough attention to provoke questions. Was this just a publicity stunt or an effort to be "fan supportive rather than fan exploitative," as frontman Dexter Holland claims...
Evans listened to parents' comments last week, but she positively beamed at last night's meeting. While she says she has listened to parent criticism, Evans has tried to protect her administrators and guidance counselors...
...asked. Laura's eyes had that familiar pinwheeling quality I remembered from my own first months of motherhood--that hallucinatory period when a mother's heart is opened wide, even as her eyelids flutter shut. No matter what the poets say about the ethereal joys of parenthood, any exhausted parent knows it is hard to concentrate on anything--sex, eating, finally changing out of your sweatpants--if you've become a sleep junkie, jonesing for some REMs. The key for parents' getting some sleep is first getting the baby to sleep--an eternal problem that has spawned all manner...
Ferber's cry-it-out method asks parents to listen to their baby cry for longer and longer intervals of time, starting at five minutes, before going into the room. The idea is that babies need to learn how to fall asleep on their own--without parental intervention in the form of rocking or nursing. For every parent who has told me that this seems hardhearted, another has sheepishly said it worked like a charm after a few nights...