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...even favorably. Most parents know better than to ask, "Why can't you be more like your brother?" But any comparison pits one child against another; it subtly sabotages their relationship when a parent says, "You're much better organized than your sister." Each child should be appreciated individually--though not necessarily equally--and should be praised as if he were an only child...
...stay on top of that strategy, and many teaser rates don't apply to an old balance anyway. Home-equity lines of credit are easy to get, but the rate usually floats. Consider instead a fixed-rate home-equity loan for a one-time consolidation of debt. Beware though. Some lenders let you borrow 150% of your house's value. That puts you in jeopardy of losing the house if you can't make payments, and interest on amounts exceeding the home's value are not deductible...
...most significant of Webre's innovations, though, is his choreography, which crossbreeds the time-tested language of ballet with the high energy and cool irony of pop culture. The results, though sometimes too glibly "accessible," are more often bracingly individual. This season, for example, has seen company premieres of Fluctuating Hemlines, inspired by Camille Paglia's iconoclastic Sexual Personae; Carmina Burana, an unabashedly sexy dance pageant accompanied by Carl Orff's thunderous choral settings of medieval poems about love and lust; and Juanita y Alicia, a "family album" set to Buena Vista Social Club-type music performed live...
...Philips dates his passion for wine to the Passover tables of his childhood, where "wine was the one thing forbidden to the kids." By the time he was in his teens, he was taking tasting courses in his hometown of Berkeley, Calif. And though Philips studied film at U.S.C., got a master's at Oxford and bounced from job to job, he spent his free time sniffing, swirling and spitting his way through the world's wines. "Preparation," he says, "for what I was supposed to be doing...
Like Parker, Philips does more than just find wine: he also writes about it with zeal and charm. (His e-letters are available at gratefulpalate.com. And though many of the Australian wines he particularly champions are available only in tiny quantities, he's expanding into more plentiful epicurean joys. Among his passions: bacon flavored and sliced by tiny mom-and-pop smokehouses. It's one taste he presumably didn't pick up at Passover...