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...almost gave up my quest for 2003's best dad. But then I found him - right down the block: My pal, David. Newly divorced, David is one of 1.3 million Americans currently sharing custody of a child - or children - with an ex-spouse. Since his wife split from him (she decided she liked another man better), he has navigated his way through a dusty American legal system that favors motherhood while undervaluing dads. He struggles daily to reestablish the career he'd given up in order to help his wife nurture hers. As the primary parent, caring for the children...
...then? Take your pick. There are the perennial charges of bias, which grow louder the more bitterly split the electorate gets. But there's also the problem that many big-media journalists are now cautious, well-paid conformists distant from their audiences and more responsive to urban elites, powerful people and megacorporations--especially the ones they work for. Hence the bland news anchors who verge on self-parody; magazines so commercial they're practically catalogs; timid pack journalism (We love dotcoms too! I mean, we never believed in them either!); local newscasts shilling for their corporate parents ("Up next...
...perpetuity. Under the arrangement, NBC this year got the initial $10 million in advertising revenues to cover its production and promotion costs. The next $3 million went to the AFL. Both figures have already been covered, and additional funds--the amount of which neither party will specify--are being split fifty-fifty between the network and the league. The AFL team owners have also agreed to give NBC 5% of any proceeds exceeding $12 million that are acquired in the sale of a franchise. In past contracts with other sports leagues, "when a league would leave for a more lucrative...
...team’s hitting their stride now,” Allard said following a season-ending split with Dartmouth. “It’s too bad that the season’s ending. We need to do that earlier in the year next year. We learned that...
...northern point of a triangle of hostility to the U.S. presence that extends south to the cities of Falluja and Ramadi to the west of Baghdad and then into the outer fringes of the capital itself. Somewhere within this triangle, many suspect, Saddam and his sons are hiding - probably split up, protected by a small group of bodyguards and a lot of money...