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...million program and will help cities hire 100,000 new officers. Clinton also signed the National Child Protection Act, which creates a data base of all indictments and convictions for child abuse, sex offenses, violent crimes and felony drug charges. The information will be available for background checking to those hiring child-care workers...
...Where I come from, a million dollars is a lot of money. Losing sight of what happens in the individual classroom, what happens at the individual level, is something that happens to politicians. It’s just the nature of the beast. I think my background should help me keep that perspective.”David Slavitt, who waged his own long-shot campaign as a Republican candidate for state representative last year, says he supports Green in the race.“I think he’ll do very well shaking up the city council meetings, which...
...fetishize combat; they treat the war movies they watch on the rec room film projector like pornos, moaning orgasmically as Martin Sheen’s helicopter swoops down on Vietnamese villages while Wagner’s “The Ride of the Valkyries” blares in the background. But Swofford and his fellow marines never get the conflict they want to fight. When the war ends without climax, the soldiers fire their rifles in the air in a masturbatory barrage. As the soldiers go home, it’s clear the Marine Corps has been a cocktease...
...Though all are enthusiastic about the experience, Frey points out that some of them were “ashamed of their final product,” a strange sentiment in light of the compositions’ beauty and uniqueness. Frey, who is a Cal Poly graduate with an illustration background, turned to landscapes when he saw what he refers to as a “cheesy family painting” that made him want to render them more active. But Frey’s style is hard to pin down: he does work in traditional media like illustration and cartoons...
...because he and his father are the only fleshed-out characters. More likely it’s the sheer affluence involved; a main source of conflict is whether Spritz will get a job that boosts his income from $200,000 to over $1 million. With this as background, there’s little at stake; at the end of the day, everyone is going to do okay, and if not, they’ll probably work it out in therapy...