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Desperately tries to be a clever camp thriller, Matt Dillon, Kevin Bacon, Neve Campbell and newcomer Denise Richards star as the dynamic "wild things" that turn a South Florida affluent suburb into a hotbed of corruption and controversy. The movie is just one big ode to cleavage, bikini carwashes, bisexuals, wet T-shirts and sweaty threesomes. Richards fares the best out of the four in a role that might be remembered for the rest of her career (whether this movie will start it or end it is a whole other question). Almost deserves a cult following, almost...
...Some school districts, like that in Philadelphia, have implemented "socialized recess," in which children are required to take part in monitored activities such as dance or gymnastics. In addition, more and more parents have begun to focus their children's energies on piano lessons or organized sports. Especially in affluent areas, there is increased pressure to expand the curriculum to include the arts. But while these "alternatives" can be useful, they cannot completely replace recess. The fact that recess is unstructured and free is precisely what makes it so valuable...
...nonetheless, and as such they should shake people's unflagging faith in our economic system. The two of us struggle to fathom placing such blind faith in a system which produces enormous income disparities, divides American social and economic life along racial lines and puts a Starbucks on every affluent corner...
...shock of Israel's devastating defeat of Egypt in the 1967 Six-Day War. The loss catapulted him and many other activists of his generation into politics. He was the last person that friends and colleagues ever suspected would become a fundamentalist. He grew up in Cairo's affluent Zamalek quarter, the privileged son of Ihsan Abdul Koddus, a liberal writer with close ties to Egypt's revolutionary hero, Gamal Abdel Nasser. His grandmother was Rose al Youssef, a Lebanese-born early feminist, a flamboyant actress and magazine publisher...
...from an ever broader array of geographic areas in the U.S. and internationally, and ethnic diversity has also remained at high levels. At the same time, "early" programs of every sort (especially binding early decision programs) have traditionally attracted fewer minority students and fewer financial aid applicants. Many less affluent schools do not have adequate counseling facilities to help students prepare to meet "early" deadlines. Harvard and other colleges are fully aware of this fact and will not foreclose the opportunity to admit outstanding students simply because they do not have the chance to apply early...