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...schoolmate called me. We discussed our cause on our way to school. Everything was the same at the school: the same teachers, the same students, the textbooks, the chalkboards. We started our day by reciting poems for Palestine. The bell rang for the first class, a science lesson. The teacher entered. She began talking. I was not listening. I thought about our martyrs and wounded. I thought of the 13-year-old child who fell a martyr. How sad is his mother? I am proud of him. He was from my region. He was killed on his way back home...
...with all the world watching on Friday - whither, boys? Bounce or bottom? - the Streeters punted. Some solid earnings from eBay, backing up a reassuring report on PC sales from Microsoft after the bell Thursday, floated pretty much everything tech up another couple of points after Thursday's buying hootenanny...
...What's going on? Maybe just a single-day version of last Friday; investors seem unwilling to dash the indexes on the rocks completely, but equally unwilling to declare the end of six months of neuroses just yet. Earnings season marches on after the bell, with big-footprint techies AOL, Apple and Microsoft all reporting for the after-hours crowd. Their reaction will show up in the morning...
...drab northeastern town of Easington in 1984, the year of a crippling coal strike, and Billy (Jamie Bell) is taking boxing lessons at the insistence of his gruff widower dad (Gary Lewis). But the boy really wants to dance. He's got happy feet that can drive him into a dervish fury. He finds a crabby, loving teacher (Julie Walters), who is impressed enough by his skill and spirit that she prods him to apply to the Royal Ballet school. Thus ensue the inevitable domestic disputes, softening of hard hearts and pirouettes in heroic slow motion...
...Wells as Billy's effeminate friend (at home he dresses up in women's clothes--just like his dad!); Nicola Blackwell as the teacher's precocious daughter (she has a near sex experience with Billy); Jamie Draven as Billy's tough brother (star quality could be blooming there); and Bell, a comely lad whose unaffected poise carries the film and brings charm to its excesses. It's a victory for Bell to be so natural in a movie so calculating. And victorious they both may be, perhaps even at Oscar time. At a Manhattan screening last week, one Academy member...