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...make no mistake about it: while music is their passion, it's also hard work. Both have had a lifetime of training. Bagge's father was also a producer and brought young Anders into the studio at age five. Like many Swedish kids, Birgisson took free music lessons offered by the government. Even now, they're still learning, developing not only as writers but also as technicians. "We've forced ourselves to become engineers," Bagge says. "When I want the drums twisted or when I want that punch, I know how to get it." Hit-making is no accident...
...About Adam entertaining throughout. Hudson plays Lucy Owens, a nightclub singer with a knack for being unlucky in love. Her luck changes when she meets Adam (newcomer Stuart Townsend), whose sexy, mysterious performance invokes comparisons to Jude Law. Adam gives Lucy everything she has always wanted in a man-passion, spontanety and love. He even charms the rest of the Owens clan, including Lucy's mother, two sisters and younger brother. The plot thickens when Adam begins to give "everything" to both of Lucy's sisters as well. He provides the scholarly Charlotte, the youngest Owens sister, with passionate romance...
...where is the man who buys the begonias? The husband who helps create the sumptuous dinner party? Martha herself admits that her passion for gardening came from her father. So why are her products marketed so exclusively to women...
...many of us have forgotten that we are still engaged in a struggle for racial redemption that involves, among other things, beating whites at their own game in the classroom as well as on the playing field. We've got to start hitting the books with the same passion and moral courage that we used to overcome slavery and segregation. Our honor demands it. And so does our history...
Given the passion each author musters, mothers will be relieved that Crittenden, for the moment, has the last word. Though her thesis--that parenting imposes unfair penalties on women--is as old as motherhood itself, she stitches together recent research with a brief history of wifery and turns out a fresh, persuasive argument. Inflexible workplaces, financial inequities in marriage (and divorce), and the ineligibility of unpaid caregivers for the government's major social-insurance programs make motherhood the "single biggest risk factor for poverty in old age," she writes. Her recipe for "bring[ing] children up without putting women down...