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Perhaps none of the dread offspring archetypes--the thumb sucker, the binky addict, the colicky screamer--is more feared than the bad sleeper, and parents will try any formula that offers the prospect of some rest. Sleep manuals outsell even the baby bible What to Expect When You're Expecting. For years, parents have clung to competing sleep-training camps (Never wake a sleeping baby! No naps in the stroller!) in hopeful desperation. So when Dr. Richard Ferber, author of the best-selling 1985 book Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems, seemingly backpedaled on his signature "cry it out" technique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Debate That Never Rests | 11/20/2005 | See Source »

...shame. As much as we rely on the government for security intelligence, we rely on artists to offer moral intelligence about how evil works. "It's like they say, Know your enemy," says Ethan Reiff, a co-executive producer, with Cyrus Voris, of Sleeper Cell, a 10-hour Showtime mini-series (running over two weeks beginning Dec. 4) that goes inside an al-Qaeda cadre planning a WMD attack in Los Angeles. "In pop culture," says Voris, "terrorists have been simplistic bad guys who come from a country called Unnamedistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Terrorists Get Their Close-Up | 11/13/2005 | See Source »

...anything other than evil behind terrorism got Bill Maher and Susan Sontag lambasted--there was a limited audience in the U.S. for complex terrorists. But four years and a controversial war later, a few works are starting to hang flesh on those stick villains. In addition to Syriana and Sleeper Cell, there's The War Within, a film about a plan to blow up New York City's Grand Central Terminal, and Paradise Now, about Palestinian suicide bombers. Salman Rushdie has taken up the subject in his latest novel, Shalimar the Clown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Terrorists Get Their Close-Up | 11/13/2005 | See Source »

...audience surrogates. In Syriana there is a reformist Arab prince; in War Within, Hassan's childhood friend Sayeed (Firdous Bamji), an assimilated suburban dad, doesn't understand why Hassan can't leave his anger and piety back in the Old World. In its sweeping, 24-like thriller plot, Sleeper Cell depicts a wide range of extremists but also Darwyn (Michael Ealy), a devout Muslim FBI agent who infiltrates the cell and sees its members as foes of Islam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Terrorists Get Their Close-Up | 11/13/2005 | See Source »

...June 24: 7:25 p.m.—Police noted a person “sleeping on the grass” by the side of 111 Western Avenue in Allston. The grass-sleeper was sent on his way with a no-trespass warning for Harvard University property...

Author: By Alexandra C. Wood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What I Did This Summer. By: Criminals. | 9/29/2005 | See Source »

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