But his wife was told by Dr Alejandro Guidos that she would need an emergency caesarean section five weeks ahead of her due date.
His office denied Israeli television reports that he had ordered the troops withdrawn by June 1, five weeks ahead of his original deadline.
The producers announced that the show would close five weeks ahead of schedule, on Sunday, though in a statement this week they said that the business model remained sound.
A HUNDRED years ago this month, the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and four teammates became the first men to reach the South Pole, arriving in triumph five weeks ahead of Robert Falcon Scott.
Five weeks ahead of the Copenhagen conference on a new international treaty on global warming, an EU summit spent two days immersed in number-crunching rows over the costs and who should bear them.
Broadway has its first commercial failure of the 2010-11 season: David Mamet's play "A Life in the Theater," which stars stage and television star Patrick Stewart and the former "Grey's Anatomy" actor T.R. Knight, will close on Nov. 28, five weeks ahead of the originally scheduled end of the run.
