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...first, after the baby arrived, Marianne kept her same hectic work schedule, taking along her infant son and a baby sitter to out-of-town conventions. After daylong meetings, she'd return to her hotel room and nurse the baby. "I made it work," she says. "But I sure don't miss those times." Since then, Marianne has changed jobs to cut out travel. Her mother lives with her and helps out with baby sitting. "I don't have all the answers," Marianne says. "But I trust myself and the people around me to help me make the right decisions...
...Billy Carter and Roger Clinton have taught us, First Brothers are supposed to be screw-ups. (We're watching you, Marvin Bush.) Now, in a nice postmodern twist, even fictional presidential brothers are causing headaches. JOE ESTEVEZ, sibling of West Wing Oval Office sitter and lefty activist MARTIN SHEEN, recorded a very Sheen-like voice-over for a convention ad touting the decidedly right-wing Hunting and Shooting Sports Heritage Foundation. While it's not Estevez's fault that he sounds exactly like his brother, a firearms-industry representative says the hire was no accident. "Let's just say this...
...that closed because its sponsoring hospital needed to cut costs. "Everybody screams for sick-child care, but they absolutely won't touch it unless they have to--and then only if Grandma can't do it and Mommy and Daddy can't change their schedules and the baby-sitter is not available. Parents just prefer to stay home...
...intentions, House members are arguing a measure designed to keep American Internet users away from web gambling sites - with apparent disregard for two important facts. One, their goal is virtually impossible to achieve, and two, the American web-surfing public may not appreciate the presence of a federal baby-sitter...
...pocket or sneezing on his good suit--I figure he doesn't understand what parenting is really like for most working families. For them, child care means patching together a house of cards--one that can be sent tumbling by a case of strep, an AWOL baby sitter or a school vacation. For most parents, child care presents a series of worst-case scenarios punctuated by periods of fitful sleep when we are worried about future worst-case scenarios, like the day when, out of desperation, we might have to take our toddler to work...