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...sudden upheaval in Lebanon, set in motion last month by the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, in itself might have been enough to permit the Bush team to issue a whispered "I told you so" to critics who thought the Presi-dent's optimism was naive. But that was not what the Administration was doing--and that too was a promising sign. The "don't gloat" mantra of Bush's father during the heady days of 1989 was back in vogue at the White House. In public, Bush allowed himself only this much satisfaction at a stop...
...says Sydney family lawyer Hamish Cumming, assurances along these lines do little to mollify parents who feel their kids are slipping away from them. "When you try to say, 'Don't worry, you have the same level of parental responsibility as your spouse,' they don't all of a sudden go, 'Oh, well, then, that's fine I'm only seeing my child one day a fortnight,'" says Cumming. "That's not the issue. These terms are great for lawyers in that we understand them, we work with them and we can get our heads around them, but the client...
...friend J.R. McKechnie. He applied to rejoin the Marines. He was 30, married, a child on the way. "It was really hard on the family," McKechnie says. "Look at Jill. She's a New Yorker, a former model. She had married a hunky media executive, and all of a sudden she ends up with a jarhead on her hands. This is not what she signed...
Ultimately, though, the Big Green tallied the sudden-death strike, with 31.2 seconds remaining in overtime...
...baby's out, feeding begins, and the American Academy of Pediatrics (A.A.P.) has revised its guidelines on breast feeding to answer some stubborn questions. Among their conclusions: it's O.K. to sleep in the same bed with your baby, to make feeding easier and reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, as long as there is no loose bedding and the mattress is firm--although the risk exists of a parent rolling over and smothering a small child. (We've ordered a bassinet that attaches to the bed.) The A.A.P. suggests feeding babies only breast milk for the first...