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...million a year. It has fully wired 38 inner-city schools, connecting some 75,000 kids to the Internet. Sarah Holloway, Mouse's executive director, says a worker who sweats alongside his boss, pulling cable in a public school, knows that they are after more than a fast buck. Says Holloway: "It is a bonding experience." Rasiej says that "a lot of CEOs approach me and take out their checkbooks. I tell them that's not what I am looking for." He wants brainpower and imagination...
...eternally vague "business attire." Interns put in long days of answering phones and doing research for higher-ups who are accustomed to both dressing well and being able to ask someone to find information on those new-fangled computers for them. Interns may walk home to save a buck, only to blow the money on Coronas in smoky bars full of fellow interns. And interns awake in the morning with another hangover, zip and scrunch themselves into the uncomfortable clothes and begin again...
...Dean's Council, consisting of Queen, Summer School Dean Peter Buck, Director of the SSP Elizabeth C. Hewitt and the three assistant deans, can take action on its own. Or when a more serious case arises, they can involve the Summer School Administrative Board, the highest disciplinary power on campus...
...this time, the deal looks like the only way out for Chuck, and we are given to understand that they both emerge from the experience better men. Chuck and Carlyn get married, and Buck is seen at their wedding sidling up to a more appropriate object for his affections. We, however, are left in a somewhat larger emotional limbo...
...Buck's homosexuality that disturbs us. (Who, outside the Christian right, cares anymore about anyone's sexual orientation?) What's upsetting about the movie is its refusal to judge Buck's intrusiveness. Sometimes it seems to think it's funny; all the time it begs us to sympathize with it. But obsession, no less than the cell phone or the unerasability of our Internet wanderings, is a threat to our privacy, possibly our lives. Any movie, especially one as crude and inept as this one, that refuses to acknowledge that fact is dishonest--sort of a Scream IV without that...