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Following a time-out, however, Princeton junior guard Ahmed El-Nokali pushed the ball up court and dished the ball off to sophomore guard Kyle Wente, who released an off-balance three pointer that sliced through the net as time expired giving Princeton the 69-67 victory...
...Israel's new government looks set to take a de facto time-out from the peace process, at least as it has been defined over the past eight years, and work to restore stability in a country whose nerves are dangerously frayed. Indeed, forming a unity government is clearly an attempt by Israel's two major parties to calm the panic in domestic politics (once Sharon is sworn in next week, the country will have had four prime ministers in five years) and act in their mutual interest to restore the traditional Labor-Likud duopoly of power...
Some parents cling to the idea of punishment; they like the simple physics of it. A quick spank or a minute of time-out for every year of a child's age, for instance, seems like a just response to a transgression. But punishments that grow out of a parent's anger don't work because kids learn mainly that they can really make their parents mad. What kids really need to learn is good judgment: they need to behave well, not because they're afraid of being punished but because of how good it feels to do the right...
Wolf turns the idea of the time-out around, so it is the parents who take one. Once you have dealt with your kid's actions in a no-nonsense way, it is time to move on, but often children don't realize it. They will sometimes attempt to provoke their parents, just to keep their attention. A parent should not rise to the bait. "My wife and I had this thing we did with our kids when they were trying to provoke us," he says. "We'd just look at them calmly and say, 'Goodbye,' and then go about...
When parents take a temporary time-out, a child will do just about anything--including being good--to get them back. And when a child reaps the rewards of being in her parents' good graces, she will work harder to stay there...