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...child-rearing advice, Bernie Mac would seem to come a few places above Joan Crawford but quite a few pages below Bill Cosby. During a stand-up routine in the movie The Original Kings of Comedy, the 44-year-old comedian laid out his idea of discipline: whack a kid with a hammer. "You grown enough to talk back," he ranted. "You grown enough...
...Bush makes his counterstrike there is a nagging fear, particularly in Europe, that if he doesn?t get Osama bin Laden he?s going to blow up a quarter of the world trying. A well-defined war can be good for business - a spiraling game of high-megaton whack-a-mole will...
...wary. The lion's name was Chi Chi, and it loved jumping up onto the minister and wrestling with him. At the start of the resumed interview, Chi Chi bit into the minister's crotch, which brought a small shout, a few seconds of pain and then a whack over the nose to prompt the lion to let go. A little later, it took an interest in the BBC cameraman, pummeling him to the ground as he was filming. When the lion handler - who, we were rather disconcerted to notice, only had one eye - grabbed the chain around the lion...
...This thing, in other words, just went back to sleep. The FERC decided to let Wagner take a whack at the dispute on June 18, the same day the agency upshifted its "price mitigation plan" to 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week wholesale price caps on the electricity markets of "the entire 11-state Western region." That little number was widely seen to give Bush some badly needed cover, as FERC was an independent agency doing the politically smart thing for apparently pure motives. Bush the pure-bred capitalist could look graceful simply by not squealing like...
Lerner believes that guilt, after taking a brief holiday during the 1980s, has surged again as mothers re-evaluate the impact that working has on their families. Lerner counsels mothers to understand that guilt rises from expectations that are out of whack with reality. "And," she says, "guilt-stricken mothers should also realize that the truly guilty rarely feel that...