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...boost performance--especially minority performance. He also took on state teachers' colleges, telling them that 70% of graduates in each minority group must pass the state teacher-certification exam or the schools would risk losing accreditation; 35 of the state's 86 colleges are now on probation. Says Jeanne Allen, president of the Center for Education Reform, "Few Governors have been willing to test as much as he has. Texas is well on its way toward real accountability and real reform, and that movement wasn't there before Bush was Governor. He's at the top of a small pack...
From the Manhattan skyline to Woody driveling anxiety to his shrink, the first moments of Antz suggest a film destined to become another prototypical Woody Allen movie. Until Woody (now an ant named "Z") gets off the psychoanalyst's couch and walks into "The Colony." The makers of Antz seem particularly interested in demonstrating their ability to depict water and human movement, disregrading the fact that the plot must make some rather forced detours in order to accommodate these animated showpieces. Though the character of Allen as well as those of the other actors (voiced by Dan Akroyd, Anne Bancroft...
...second is the acting, the two standouts being Maguire, who gives a beautifully nuanced performance as the film's emotional center, and Joan Allen as his (Pleasantville) mother: independently and together, they account for nearly all of the movie's most poignant moments. The fact that Allen plays the same role she always does, i.e., the repressed wife/mother figure with a hidden reservior of intense feeling, would be more annoying if she didn't do it so superbly, exactly right. Next to her, William Macy is merely adequate, though often quite funny, as the impotent and increasingly bewildered father figure...
Charles Ng, 37, the man accused of killing Kathleen Allen and 11 other victims, finally went on trial last week, more than 13 years after his arrest. Ng and Leonard Lake, both former Marines, are believed to have killed up to two dozen men, women and children during the mid-1980s after luring them to their remote cabin in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Northern California. They allegedly forced the women to become sex slaves and took scores of pornographic photographs and videotapes of them before killing them and burning the bodies...
While it may take another century to fully understand the Taino culture, it should not take as long to eradicate the myth of Columbus as a hero. HALLEY ALLEN Holden, Mass...