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...website birthdayswithoutpressure.org, hoping that by naming the problem, and giving parents a forum, he can help parents ratchet down the expectations and change the social norms. When Doherty was giving lectures on overscheduling kids, he heard parents grumbling about birthday parties and goody bags. It really touched a nerve after he had his first grandchild. His daughter told him that by the time her son was six months old, people were already asking what the theme of her son's first birthday would...
...Problem is, indie movies are getting as predictable as Hollywood's. Sundance movies have devolved into a genre. The style is spare and naturalistic. The theme is relationships, beginning in angst and ending in reconciliation. The focus is often on a dysfunctional family (there are no functional ones in indie movies) that strives to reconnect. Within this genre are a few subspecies: the family breakup film (The Squid and the Whale), the finding-your-family-at-school movie (Half Nelson, Brick), the gay drama (Mysterious Skin). Way too frequently, the family goes on a trip. Given the typical Sundance pace...
...University President Derek C. Bok pointed out, “The Ph.D., in my knowledge, is the only major professional program in the United States that does not prepare students for the activity that they will spend most of their professional lives [doing].” Therein lies the problem...
...military auxiliary wings" that kill our soldiers. On the Times op-ed page, Captain Luis Carlos Montalvan proposed that "a new set of at least l,400 elite officials jointly selected and vetted by the Iraqi ministries and the coalition forces" form an "anticorruption task force" to eliminate the problem of Iraqi black marketers' selling military supplies to the insurgents...
...command in the region, also have a slightly different take on the role of the militias in the area, who they say are generally not responsible for most of the attacks against coalition forces. "It is rogue elements inside the militias that are causing most of the problems," explained Major Chris Ormond-King, a British Army spokesman. "The militias as whole are not inherently a problem. In fact in some neighborhoods they help control crime, and need to be included in part of the political solution...