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...hole in America’s heart. The best way to identify imagination-loss in my peers is to see their response when someone dares to deviate from the sensible adult behavior we’ve adopted. You can try it yourself: If you want to play freeze-tag, build a fort or play make-believe, how many of your friends want to play with you? They’ll probably humor you in a tongue-in-cheek way, covering their discomfort with phrases like, “Wow, that’s random...
...many agencies looking for help, and SKIP was the only one that even called me back," she says. But there is a waiting list of thousands more families that SKIP, on its shoestring budget, cannot take on without additional resources. Margaret hopes one day to be able to build a clinically staffed residential community. "These families need a respite; they never get a break. They need to be supported in this effort," she says. "Yet it is just indescribable how hard we make it for them. There is so much need wherever you look--all you need is a heart...
...coalition's own 2006 report card on the Daley plan applauds the effort to build more permanent housing, but says the stock of affordable housing is actually flattening or shrinking as rich developers gobble up empty space and redevelop once ramshackle areas of town. The study, released last fall, says Daley "grossly underestimates the demand for homeless services in Chicago," and charges that "thousands of people are likely to end up abandoned and only a limited number of people helped...
...Chavez, who has used his petro-largesse to build a raft of global alliances, now exploiting the big screen to spread propaganda for his socialist revolution? Chavez critics in Washington, like Florida congressman Connie Mack, are blasting Glover for cutting "a sweetheart movie deal" with Chavez, whom they denounce as a protege of Cuba's communist comandante, Fidel Castro...
...jump-start Venezuela's dormant film industry - and notes that Venezuela's is hardly the first government to subsidize moviemaking. It's common in many European nations as well as Latin American countries like Brazil and Mexico. "For a country like Venezuela, it's really the only way to build a cinema infrastructure," says the adviser. As for the built-in politics of the Toussaint story, he likens it to other liberation struggles such as that of Scottish hero William Wallace, brought to the screen 12 years ago by Glover's Lethal Weapon co-star, Mel Gibson, in Braveheart...