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...Kate, headmistress of a school in an English village. Each week Kate and her best friends--a physician (Anna Chancellor) and a policewoman (Imelda Staunton)--meet to spill their latest ordeals d'amour and decide who among them is the most pathetic of all. Then Kate tumbles into an affair with Jed (dishy Kenny Doughty), a former student who moonlights as a church organist. This steams her friends, who see the affair as a threat to the only family they know. Chicanery and worse follow, as the film dares a violent shift of tone but ends up in a sadder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Andie's Arrival | 4/15/2002 | See Source »

...absolutely as happy as anyone could be," says Herbert. "But it was dawning on her just what she was getting into. The penny was very much dropping, and it daunted her." "The press were dreadful," says KAY KING, headmistress of the Young England kindergarten. "From the moment the first picture of her appeared at Balmoral until the time of her engagement, it was nonstop. She had no guidance from the palace, because they were trying to pretend it didn't exist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN LIVING MEMORY | 9/15/1997 | See Source »

...Burnett, the movie seeks to illustrate the oh-so-charming platitude that "All girls are really princesses." We follow Sara Crewe (Liesel Matthews), the daughter of a rich British officer, Captain Crewe (Liam Cunningham), as she leaves India for boarding school in New York. At first the school's headmistress, Miss Minchin (Eleanor Bron) spares no expense to put Sara at ease, knowing she'll reap the rewards from Sara's rich father. But when Captain Crewe is reported missing in action and his property is confiscated by the British government, Miss Minchin morphs into Cruella DeVille, complete with...

Author: By Cicely V. Wedgeworth, | Title: A Little (Kids') Charmer | 5/26/1995 | See Source »

This year ballots will be counted at the Longfellow School, where the headmistress has instructed students to run if they see an adult in the bathroom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 10/22/1993 | See Source »

...country's oldest and most prestigious secondary schools, is equally certain to inflame the debate over "political correctness" and tolerance of alternative life-styles on the nation's campuses. Bateman, 51, pleaded not guilty on all counts, and his lawyer says he is the victim of homophobia. Exeter headmistress Kendra Stearns O'Donnell claims that the school fosters an attitude of acceptance toward homosexual teachers and students. She told the New York Times,"We have made an effort to educate not only in the traditional way, but to free students of the disabling prejudices that later in life will compromise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tolerance Betrayed | 8/17/1992 | See Source »

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