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That conflicted reaction, even to an admittedly extreme case, is one glimmer of what legal experts describe as a looming backlash against the tough-on-juvenile-crime bills that politicians scrambled to enact over the past 10 to 15 years. "More states are looking at the impact of what they did," says Shay Bilchik, executive director of the Child Welfare League of America. "They're hearing from their judges, prosecutors and child advocates that we're giving up on way too many kids...
Hanging on in eighth place, the Tigers have only a glimmer of a hope for home ice. Realistically, Princeton will have to settle for a post-season road trip, which it will clinch easily by taking at least one point against Harvard or Brown...
...Glimmer brothers are old-time jazzmen, long estranged. Martin (John Spencer) has kept faith with the music--and with self-destruction. Daniel (Nicolas Surovy) has settled for suburban prosperity and forgetfulness. Shine (Jonathan Silverman), the son of a man who played with them, effects a reconciliation while pursuing Daniel's daughter (Alexa Fischer). Leight won a Tony for Side Man, also about musical lives. This play, now at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, is slicker, more manipulative. It is saved by Spencer (of TV's West Wing), whose towering rage at the dying light is awesome and hilarious...
...government factions fought over who should succeed him. American officials say they think the shooting was the result of an internal power struggle, a by-product of the country's bloody civil war. Some African analysts finger the Angolans, who were frustrated with Kabila's leadership. There was a glimmer of hope in the news: Western diplomats think Kabila's death may encourage the warring factions to seek peace...
Stories, which I rank as the best release of the year, draws a picture of P.J. that her fans have never seen. After suffering a nervous breakdown in 1992, Harvey coped through her art, expressing a bitter, beautiful blend of anger and resignation, but not without an ever-present glimmer of hopeful longing. This album suggests she may have temporarily found what she has been looking for: a little happiness and some genuine love. Her vocals seem more relaxed, her guitar a bit less austere and the tunes somewhat more welcoming. On "Big Exit," Harvey meditates on human suffering...