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...then, to paraphrase that Palm Beach sleeper hit Pat Buchanan, you can argue...
This is writer-director M. Night Shyamalan's native ground, and as he did in last year's coolly creepy sleeper The Sixth Sense, he uses it brilliantly. Nobody grounds the supernatural in the quotidian--especially the lower-middle-class variety, where the struggle to make the rent can equal the struggle to understand the unseen--more persuasively than Shyamalan does...
Whatever parents choose to do, they should provide a calm, warm and consistent bedtime ritual that is easy to adhere to, remembering that a baby who is well rested with daytime naps is usually a better sleeper at night. They should steel themselves to hear some crying as Baby settles in, but be ready to respond if their baby sounds truly distressed. Parents can use the literature as a guide but must always trust their instincts above any expert's (including this one). No one knows your own baby better than you do, awake or--one hopes--asleep...
This summer's sleeper hit movie Bring It On, about a San Diego high school cheer team competing for a national championship, was not just Hollywood fantasy. Cheerleading has come a long way from the days of busty, baton-twirling quarterback groupies. Many cheerleaders, of course, still serve primarily as perky high school spirit rousers. But 14 states now call cheerleading a sport, and all-star teams--strictly competitive groups run by local gyms--are exploding in popularity. Some 40 groups organize regional and national competitions, most of them between December and April. "Competitive cheer" has become the fastest-growing...
...gloomy. Those are the leading raps against Wallerstein. Paul Amato, a sociology professor at Penn State, has researched divorce and children for 20 years, casting the sort of wide statistical net that hardheaded academics favor and Wallerstein eschews as too impersonal. While Amato agrees with her about divorce's "sleeper effect" on children--the problems that crop up only after they're grown--he finds her work a bit of a bummer. "It's a dismal kind of picture that she paints," he says. "What most of the large-scale, more scientific research shows is that although growing...