Word: turnings
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Friday night it was Jimmy Kimmel's turn to host the young stars of The Twilight Saga: New Moon: Kristen Stewart (Bella Swan), Taylor Lautner (Jacob Black) and Robert Pattinson (Edward Cullen, as if you didn't know). The audible rapture of the studio audience, in large part female, stirred Kimmel to that now-familiar remark, "Not since the Beatles..." The crowd swooned when Pattinson, asked if he'd been injured doing any of the movie's stunts, acknowledged, "I strained one of my ass-cheeks." When the ladies had a chance to ask questions, the ones directed...
...Glee Club, according to tradition, sang “10,000 Men of Harvard”; in an irreverent turn, this was followed by an electronic remix composed by Noam Hassenfeld...
...them all the more zealously. Helicopter parents can be found across all income levels, all races and ethnicities, says Patricia Somers of the University of Texas at Austin, who spent more than a year studying the species at the college level. "There are even helicopter grandparents," she notes, who turn up with their elementary-school grandchildren for college-information sessions aimed at juniors and seniors. (See pictures of Barack Obama's college years...
...John Payne, author of Simplicity Parenting, teaches seminars on how to peel back the layers of cultural pressure that weigh down families. He and his coaches will even go into your home, weed out your kids' stuff, sort out their schedule, turn off the screens and help your family find space you didn't know you had, like a master closet reorganizer for the soul. But any parent can do it just as well. "We need to quit bombarding them with choices way before their ability to handle them," Payne says. The average child has 150 toys. "When...
...generals are concerned by what they perceive as growing Indian influence in Afghanistan, through the Karzai government and massive development projects. They also accuse India of using Afghanistan as a base from which to wage a proxy war on Pakistan. Its priorities make the Pakistan army unlikely to turn its fire on the Haqqani and Hafiz Gul Bahadur networks, as Obama is demanding. Instead, the army has revived a nonaggression pact with Bahadur and with Maulvi Nazir - both of which use Pakistani soil as a base from which to wage war on NATO forces in Afghanistan. Pakistan's priority...