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...grade, but who is unaccountably willing to forget and forgive - a process he does not make easy for her. He does not make living with him easy for anyone. Not his super smart daughter, Vanessa (Ellen Page), doing a role reversal, in which she plays a sort of surrogate parent to him; not for Chuck, his feckless brother (hilariously played by Thomas Haden Church)- not for anyone who crosses his lurching path...
...Rumors are flying that Yahoo is teaming up with AOL, the long-suffering Internet division of Time Warner (which is also the parent company of TIME), as a way to stave off an unwanted merger. At the same time, there are reports that Microsoft is buddying up with News Corp. so that the two companies can increase Yahoo's offering price and corner their catch. While many industry watchers still believe that Microsoft will gobble up Yahoo eventually, chances are it will have to pay a lot more for its meal...
...paid-lunch’ kids,” he said. “At the elementary school level it worked pretty well, at the middle school level it’s deteriorating—sound familiar?” The proposal also drew mixed reactions from the parents present at the meeting. Kat Sullivan said she was “concerned” that the School Committee is even considering an IB program, and found the conversation “upsetting.” “Cambridge is quite different,” she said...
...mother-to make a powerful argument (that happens to be very liberal) without using a trace of ideology. On a good day, when he figures out how to move a crowd of thousands of people very different from himself, it has something to do with having had a parent who gazed at different cultures the way other people study gems...
Babies who grew accustomed to falling asleep with a parent in the room, being held until they fell asleep, or being taken into a parent's bed when they couldn't sleep were also more likely as older children to have trouble falling asleep and to sleep fewer hours during the night. "Co-sleeping with the child does not seem to be a good solution for comforting a child after night awakenings," Simard says. But that doesn't mean that children should be left to wail endlessly, or that parents should never console them. "It might be appropriate...