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Voucher opponents, led by the teachers' unions, celebrated. "This is a great early Christmas present for America's public schools," said Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. But the unusual pro-voucher coalition of inner-city parents, Catholic clerics and deep-pocketed entrepreneurs vows to fight on. And the Cleveland case, which is likely to go before the U.S. Supreme Court, has the potential to determine whether and how any statewide voucher program can include parochial schools...
...course of just fifteen minutes, Frazier, who mans the Amtrak information counter, explained the inner workings of Boston's subway system to harried passengers approximately 10 separate times...
...thoughts. As comic premises go these days, it is acceptable. One settles back to enjoy the advantages, personal and professional, that accrue to Nick as a result of his unexpected gift. There's some good humor in the truths that he overhears, maybe even some sympathetic insights into the inner life of a sex he has exploited as God's hunky gift to womankind. Certainly it helps him ingratiate himself with Darcy Maguire (Hunt), the new creative director at his ad agency. But something goes wrong at about the moment they start getting romantically involved. Maybe it's a failure...
Jayojit's statement about love is jarring, and highlights a central problem in the novel. Chaudhuri never develops Jayojit fully enough for his philosophy to ring true to his character. In fact, it is hard to understand Jayojit's inner life at all. Chaudhuri shows us that a part of Jayojit is stuck in India, but he never shows the side of Jayojit that inspired him to leave India in the first place. Jayojit occasionally comments on the extent to which he has grown accustomed to the conveniences he enjoys in America, but these comments do not give us insight...
...said the ideal solution would be to end the war on drugs and use the money to create a drug treatment entitlement. But he did not come out in favor of unrestricted legalization, fearing the possibility that an abrupt legalization could further destabilize inner city communities...