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...Replace with: The Virgin Suicides Sofia Coppola's underrated directorial debut is a gleaming golden fairy tale of its own, complete with sleeping beauties, prince charming and indefatigable optimism. Kirsten Dunst is lovely as a rebellious daughter in a suffocatingly close-knit suburban family...
...system was wrong to socially segregate students, but removing it does not mean we must impose new barriers on student choice, mandating the same limited course options for everyone. Consistent homerooms and advising groups will allow for close-knit communities composed of students regardless of academic interest. These communities would encourage the social interaction the old system prevented without compromising the quality of education at CRLS...
Mariette Bosch was looking for peace and security when she emigrated north from South Africa to Botswana nine years ago. For a while she appeared to have found just that. With her husband Justin and three children, she enjoyed a comfortable life amid the tightly knit expatriate community in an upmarket suburb of Gaborone, the overgrown village that is Botswana's capital. Bosch's days were pleasant ones, filled with school runs, shopping, socializing, decorating porcelain dolls, baking cakes...
George ("Georgie," "Little George," "Bushtail," "Tweeds," "Lip," "Temporary," "Bombastic Bushkin," "Dubya") Bush knows from nicknames. As in Little Italy or Compton, there must have been something about the tightly knit Wasp community of Midland, Texas, some unique social condition that encouraged the cultivation of nicknames, because everyone had one. From his father George ("Poppy") Bush, the war hero with one of those curiously effeminate preppie nicknames (like "Bunny" and "Pinkie"), to Barbara ("Bar") Bush (no one dared stray farther from the source name), to brother John Ellis ("Jeb") Bush's acronym of a name, to family friends "Spider" and "Wemus...
...simple emotional power of the tale. What we see through the eyes of six-year-old Elizabeth, her black caretaker and the others who populate this story is that apartheid was not only fought in the frontline political struggle broadcast around the world, but also in the closely knit circles of families, in the intimacies of individual relationships and in the quiet but fierce struggles of personal conscience...