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...movie's center is a wise child: Ahmad, 10, brings the warring family together. As Ahmad, Brandon Hammond is superb: his serious eyes are alert, his bearing natural. He points the film up the road it should have taken. Didn't, though. The dialogue plays like song cues without the songs, and the rest of a talented cast is wasted. Soul Food aims to be a banquet of feelings, but mostly it serves up tripe...
...HAMMOND He's not exactly a household name, but somebody at NBC has to inherit Marv's airtime...
...programs has doubled in the past 12 months, to 330. Eleven of the 30 companies in the Dow Jones industrial average have such programs. "Look for 20 Dow stocks to have them by the end of next year," says Charles Carlson, editor of DRIP Investor, a newsletter based in Hammond, Ind., that reports on direct-purchase and dividend-reinvestment programs. Just because a company offers stock for direct purchase doesn't make it a great investment. But it's a nice edge if the stock is one you'd like to own anyway...
...particular job, but the lack of a high school diploma does correlate with the inability to find work. Should students poorly educated by substandard teachers be further penalized when they can't pass a test? What about good students who just don't test well? Argues Linda Darling-Hammond of Teachers College at Columbia University: "The use of tests as a sole determinant of high school graduation imposes heavy personal and societal costs without obvious social benefits...
...Kelly writes. "Far below, the life of the city surged through the streets like the blood of a great snarling beast, unimpeded by his concerns. He was just one more fool in its hard history who'd gotten in over his head." Good magenta stuff, requiring only a little Hammond-organ ominoso to sound like the musings of Guy Noir, Garrison Keillor's private eye, who works "on the 12th floor of the Acme Building, in a city that knows how to keep its secrets...