Word: inners
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...from a thousand other fast-cutting MTV-influenced films (think "Romeo and Juliet" as directed by Baz Luhrmann). Julia Stiles ("Ten Things I Hate About You") plays Sara, an aspiring dancer who, after a family tragedy, transfers from her comfortable suburban school to a mostly minority school in the inner city. Once there, she encounters Derek (played by Sean Patrick Thomas, previously seen in "Cruel Intentions"), a black student at her new school, and the two butt heads over romance and race...
...Sunday night, CBS will broadcast the year's most anticipated television program. It stars individuals who persevere against alienation and humiliation, who must find inner strength in order to complete a months-long quest for the ultimate prize...
...became attorney general in 1977 and proceeded to build his reputation and power base opposing court-ordered school desegregation in St. Louis and Kansas City. He fought a 1983 voluntary-busing scheme for St. Louis, even though the 22 school districts in the surrounding white suburbs--where 12,000 inner-city kids would be transported every year--approved it. Among other things, he inveighed against the financial burden that the desegregation order imposed on the state--upwards of $100 million, he said, doubling the true cost, critics charged. Ashcroft appealed the federal-court ruling all the way to the Supreme...
...community like I do now," says Mike Kennelly, 37, managing partner of strategic-evaluation services for Arthur Andersen & Co. in Chicago, who's been with the firm for 15 years. Kennelly devotes about 12 hours a week to a mentoring and tutoring program that he created in 1991 for inner-city children ages 5 to 14. About 250 Arthur Andersen employees have since become involved with the program. "Next to my family and my work, this program has become a core focus of my life," Kennelly says. "I couldn't give it up." In 2000, Arthur Andersen's North American...
Nicholson is awfully good at suggesting inner tension without overplaying it. He's a great watcher at the crossroads. But then everyone in the cast (which includes Vanessa Redgrave and Helen Mirren) is good at playing normality while implying darker thoughts moving beneath the surface...