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...scholarship, the legion of consultants and I-bankers, and the summa cum laude graduate. These are amazing and talented people, to be sure, and beloved friends. But close association with them can be a bit tough on the ol’ self-esteem. The only one I feel a kinship with is the friend who’s going to Colorado to be a ski bum for a few years, though I’m sure he’ll win an Olympic skiing medal at some point...
There are in America today about 2 million Tophs--children currently in kinship care--according to a recent study by the Urban Institute titled "Children Cared for by Relatives: Who Are They and How Are They Faring?" The number has been rising significantly over the past 20 years, and in 1996 the U.S. Census Bureau began tracking domestic situations that differ from the traditional two-parent household. Siblings raising siblings account for approximately 140,000 of those cases. Sondra Jackson, the Interim Receiver of the Child and Family Services Agency in Washington, explains, "In the 1980s, we lost about...
...game and settle into a quiet family life, but the real heroes are their plucky tykes, Carmen and Juni (Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara), who are forced to save the day when mom and dad tumble into the clutches of evil. In one respect, Spy Kids shares a clear kinship to Rodriguez's previous films though its breezy, comic-book inventiveness-the playful "kids-save-parents" concept is every bit as paper-thin as the simplistic "he-came-to-settle-the-score-with-someone-anyone-everyone" setup that drives Desperado. And Spy Kids is nothing if not a culmination...
...women of the Charlie's Angels movie, which has earned $125 million since its November debut, might not seem to have kinship with Crouching Tiger's stately stunners. This colorful jape propels Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu through its empty-calorie plot with the force of a hurricane blow-dryer. The stars giggle, wear swank togs, toss their coiffures in luxurious slo-mo. Diaz shakes her booty a lot. And skeptics may laugh their booty off when told that the Angels are icons of empowerment...
...women of the "Charlie's Angels" movie, which has earned $125 million since its November debut, might not seem to have kinship with "Crouching Tiger"'s stately stunners. This colorful jape propels Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu through its empty-calorie plot with the force of a hurricane blow-dryer. The stars giggle, wear swank togs, toss their coiffures in luxurious slo-mo. Diaz shakes her booty a lot. And skeptics may laugh their booty off when told that the Angels are icons of empowerment...