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Guest Article... by Glenn Sacks
NOW Leader Slams Glenn Over NY Daily News Column...
Marcia Pappas, the President of the New York state National Organization for Women, and Irene Weiser, Executive Director of Stop Family Violence, have fired back with their op-ed Fathers' Responsibilities Before Fathers' Rights. Their arguments against shared parenting are: domestic violence; fathers are greedy and don't want to pay child support; domestic violence; mothers shouldn't be forced to share custody with their children's fathers if they don't feel like it; domestic violence; shared custody legislation applies a cookie cutter solution, as opposed to current law which gives dads only every other weekend visitation yet somehow isn't a "cookie cutter" solution; domestic violence; domestic violence; and domestic violence.
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Men's Worklife... by Marty Nemko
A Very Short, Very Advanced "Course" in Time Management...
Here are the keys to getting more done in less time.
1. Embrace work. If you recognize that the more you accomplish, the better you’ll feel about yourself and your life, you’ll get more done.  
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COYOTE... monthly column by Dick Prosapio
Blessings and Curses...
As we walked out of the Cracker Barrel in Pueblo, Colorado where I had just polished off my favorite roast beef dinner, which, by the way, isn't as good as it used to be, I noted the sign posted on the steel light pole just behind our car; "A neighborly warning, please do not leave valuables in your car." 
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THE NEW INTIMACY... monthly column by Judith Sherven, Ph.D. and James Sniechowski, Ph.D.
Suffering From The Love Grip?...
If you feel held back, stuck in a rut, blocked from the love and success you want, and you don’t’ know why – you are under the spell of what we call The Love Grip.
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Guest Article... by Wendy McElroy
'Take Back the Night' for Men as Well...
Every year, campuses and cities across North America hold "Take Back the Night" -- marches and rallies to protest violence against women. But surprising data suggests that men may need to reclaim 'the night' as urgently as women.
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JEFF'S LIFE... monthly column by Jeff Stimpson
Flyboys (Inspired by True Events)...
"Where's Alex?" I ask Jill as the Spirit Air lady tags our suitcases. Our heads spin, spin, and spin again. No Alex anywhere, just mobs of harried strangers and their bags. Jill dashes off with Ned. I dash to a luggage x-ray and find an official-looking guy in a tie and white shirt; on his shoulder tab is "TSA," which I guess means "Time to Search for Alex." His mouth opens a little when I say the word "autistic." He guides me to a cop, who pulls out a walkie-talkie and relays my description that I can suddenly see in white print at the end of a heartbreaking TV movie: brown hair, brown eyes, blue jeans, dark blue hoodie, black-and-white checkered sneakers. The cop's radio crackles.       
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DADS, DON'T FIX YOUR KIDS... monthly column by Mark Brandenburg, M.A
A Family Reminder for a Father...
"You know,” I said to my seven-year-old son as I sat next to him on the couch, “it occurs to me that I haven’t body slammed you into the ground for at least a day or two.”
He shot me a fiendish look. “You want a piece of me, buddy?!” he shouted. The next few minutes were a blur of arms and legs, body slams, and my wife telling us to “take it easy.” The more we wrestled, the more fun we had. We were lost in the moment, focusing only on who would gain the upper hand.
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TOWARD MANHOOD... A book in progress by Larry Pesavento
Chapter 18...  A New Name
If a man does not succumb to a premature return to the village, and has gone this far in stubbornly and heroically abiding in the wilderness, he will gradually realize that he has already found what he has been seeking. He will not know how this happens, just that it happened. He has acted by not reacting to temptation and regression. He has courageously persevered in his terrible and naked confusion, believing in his elders, learning to believe in himself, his new self.
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LATEST REVIEWS

REVIEW: Straight Talk for Men about Marriage: What Men Need to Know About Marriage (And What Women Need to Know About Men)
By Martin G. Friedman ©2006
The author has put together an appealingly presented, male-friendly guide to improving the quality of our marriages. As Friedman is the first to point out, this isn’t exactly rocket science. We need to learn to do the basics. A marriage is a path to learning about ourselves. Projecting our discontent onto our spouse doesn’t do either of us any favors.
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REVIEW: Self-Made Man: One Woman’s Journey into Manhood and Back Again
By Norah Vincent
Norah Vincent has produced a new book whose simple underlying concept nevertheless seems to possess all the potential power of, say, John Howard Griffin’s classic Black Like Me, in which the Caucasian author masqueraded as a black man and was astonished at the depths of the discrimination and barriers he discovered.  Author Vincent tries to do the same thing for gender, dressing in drag as “Ned” and entering various supposed male bastions to report on what she discovers.
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REVIEW: The Smart Couple’s Guide to the Wedding of Your Dreams:
Planning Together for Less Stress and More Joy
By By Judith Sherven and James Sniechowski
Judith Sherven and James Sniechowski, husband-and-wife psychologists and authors of three books previously reviewed by me in these pages (The New Intimacy, Opening to Love 365 Days a Year, and Be Loved for Who You Really Are) have just published a new book on their favorite topic, love and marriage. In a literal sense, The Smart Couple’s Guide to the Wedding of Your Dreams covers a narrower subject than any of their three previous books.  But actually, predictably enough given the authors’ excellent writing skills and tireless, creative devotion to promoting passion, their latest offering manages to transcend the limits of the genre of wedding guides.  Not seeing a book that went beyond the technicalities of wedding planning and touched the spirit of the event, they took the plunge and wrote it!
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REVIEW: Partnering: A New Kind of Relationship
By Hal Stone and Sidra Stone © 2006
Hal and Sidra Stone are, like Judith Sherven and James Sniechowski (whose latest book is reviewed elsewhere in this issue) a husband-and-wife psychologist team who have written a number of books and who travel the world giving workshops on their techniques for improving one’s life and relationships.  Partnering does not represent a stunning advance on the authors’ previous work but it does expand, in the specific context of relationships, on the work they have helped pioneer in exploring the multiple selves each of us contains through the voice dialogue technique.
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REVIEW: The Prodigal Father: A True Story of Tragedy, Survival, and Reconciliation in an American Family.
By Jon DuPre.
Jon DuPre’s achievement with “The Prodigal Father” is stupefying. What this correspondent for Fox Network News has done is so simple: He has told the story of his family of origin, consisting of two brothers, himself, and his mother and father. As a novel, the book would fail. For one thing, the plot would be utterly unbelievable! But “The Prodigal Father” is billed as an “autobiography,” and written with loving detail and self-revelation so honest and so deep that took my breath away. As such, it is utterly compelling and simultaneously completely credible.
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REVIEW: Gendercide and Genocide
Edited by Adam Jones © 2006
Apart from the rarest exceptions (such as the not-to-be-missed “Female ‘Circumcision’ in Africa: Culture, Controversy, and Change,” Edited by Bettina Shell-Duncan and Ylva Hernlund), edited volumes tend to be hit-and-miss affairs. It’s hard enough simply to find an appropriate topic, to accumulate contributions that are varied enough to provide interest but not so different that they work at cross-purposes, and to publish the work. Maintaining a razor-like focus as can easily be done with an individually authored book by definition becomes almost impossible with an edited volume.
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