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...Gangster, from Malaysian director Badi Hj. Azmi, is a standard exercise in macho auto-eroticism, but with extra horsepower. Malaysian punks race their souped-up cars on the public highways of the country?s capital - sort of The Fast and the Kuala Lumpurious. But it also interweaves three stories, making it a Crash with lots more fender-benders, and all in 79 zippy minutes. There?s also a scene in which a kidnapper rapes a sweet Muslim wife while her child?s in the room. No fatwas, please...
...keeping the Olofstorp children together is also a pragmatic concession to their parents, who could opt to send them elsewhere. Although Hjällboskolan and the public school system to which it belongs were once the only real possibility for Olofstorp parents, a growing network of private schools-heavily subsidized by the government-now gives them a range of choices. Ekenberg estimates that a fifth of the children from Olofstorp attend private schools. "A surprisingly high percentage of immigrant parents also choose private schools," notes Lärjedalen official ?sten Carlson. "If you thought they are forced to choose [public...
...practical advantages a school like Hjällboskolan has to offer can offset the attraction of private education. Though heavy immigration and rising unemployment have strained Sweden's tradition of openness, even in Olofstorp there is a recognition that, as Holmqvist says, ultimtately "you have to leave the village." Anders Olofsson, a resident of Olofstorp whose two sons attend Hjällboskolan, agrees. "Sooner or later you will meet the real world of how Sweden looks today," he says. "It's better if both the parents and the kids meet that reality earlier in life...
...have a bad attitude toward us; it's mostly the parents," she says. "They say that if the Swedish children don't form a joint class here, they will move them to another school." At the same time, she recognizes that the "Swedish" people are an integral part of Hjällboskolan. "You can't have a school with only immigrants," she explains, "because then the immigrants will be talking their own languages with each other and they won't develop the Swedish language...
...question is, can you have a school in Lärjedalen with no immigrants? Plans are under way for a new middle school in Olofstorp that would eliminate the need for the village children's daily journey to Hjällbo. If it is built, Hjällboskolan may become the exclusively immigrant domain Ekenberg and others have tried to avoid. Of course, if it is built, Hjällbo's immigrant parents can also decide that it offers the best option for their children. The day may come when the bus commute is reversed, and Hjällbo...