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...lite London girls' school, Jenny has her eyes on Oxford, but can't help giving a longing glance at the world of luxe, of fine art and good restaurants, that she is mad to enter. Admission to the dolce vita is the apple held out by her new friend David (Peter Sarsgaard), a suave businessman twice her age. He, in turn, is seduced by Jenny's intellectual brio and, for all her poise, innocence. With the same connoisseur's appreciation he might focus on an undervalued painting, David murmurs, "Isn't it wonderful to find a young person who wants...
...David, who makes money somehow in real estate, might be her tutor in that regard. He takes her to concerts and auctions, and for a weekend at Oxford. Yes, he wants to go to bed with her, but that's a pleasure she has decided to defer till she's 17. All she asks is that, when the time comes, David should "treat me like an adult." (Apres-sex, she remarks, with more curiosity than regret, "All that poetry, and all those songs, about something that lasts no time at all.") Father Jack should be opposed to David...
...those quiet beauties who dress severely, perhaps to punish the world for not noticing their loveliness. In an American movie about high school she would pull out her hairpins and do a pole dance; here she's the voice of maternal reason. Jenny's romance with David has deepened, and she has started telling off her superiors, recklessly burning academic bridges she might need to cross on a return trip. Miss Stubbs urges Jenny "to go to Oxford, no matter what. 'Cause if you don't you'll break my heart...
...legislation, known as Section 28, and even predicted that Britain's first gay Prime Minister would be a Tory. "If we do win the next election, instead of being a white, middle-class, middle-aged party, we will be far more diverse," he said. (Read "Q & A with David Cameron: Why Britain Needs a 'Compassionate Conservative...
...Lodo Alfano law last year. The law granted immunity for the country's four highest officeholders. The court's decision means the Prime Minister must now face outstanding criminal charges in three corruption cases that are already under way. Most notably, Berlusconi is accused of paying British-born lawyer David Mills to lie on his behalf during an earlier corruption trial. Mills, the husband of Britain's Olympics Minister, Tessa Jowell, has already been convicted in the case. Both Mills, who is appealing the verdict, and Berlusconi, deny the charges. (Read "London 2012: An Olympics Progress Report...