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Look, we think it's neat that this story, about folks poisoned by water laced with hexavalent chromium, caught the eye of studio execs who haven't drunk tap water in years. And it's fine if today's only female box-office magnet wants to do Norma Rae Takes a Civil Action. (Her teary phone call alone will guarantee an Oscar nomination.) But does the film, written by Susannah Grant, have to be both heckling and truckling? Everyone in it has one job: to endure Erin's ballsy superiority. Real actresses, like Cherry Jones, Marg Helgenberger and Veanne...
...name is Alice, and this is Mrs. Morse's third-grade music class. Would you care to join us?" Who wouldn't? Fetching classroom greeters are just one of the appealing features of the Wintergreen Interdistrict Magnet School in Hamden, Conn., a for-profit public school with an exuberant following among its students, parents and teachers. Run by Edison Schools Inc., a company whose shares are traded on the NASDAQ, the kindergarten-through-eighth-grade facility draws students from four local districts and sports a waiting list with more than 1,000 names on it. "We're a curiosity," says...
...classmates call such fears "immature." Parents fearful that the alliance will promote a "destructive lifestyle" are pressing administrators to find ways to shut it down, and the school district continues to argue in court against the alliance's right to meet. Meanwhile, El Modena has become a culture-war magnet: anti-alliance protesters have driven in from Utah to show support even as civil rights activists rally around the alliance...
First the bad news, at least for fans of SEAN ("Puffy") COMBS: New York prosecutors allege that while the rapper and multihyphenate trouble magnet waited in a holding cell following his arrest on a gun charge last December, police overheard him offer his driver $50,000 to take the blame for a stolen pistol found in Combs' limo. As collateral, Combs dangled a $40,000 pinkie ring--a recent gift from girlfriend Jennifer Lopez. The driver declined. "They think money can buy them out of this," said prosecutors, requesting that Combs' bail be upped from...
...bacon fat on the counter. They do, however, allow one type of fish. "Tuna's been our compromise. We had a civil discussion over tuna," Cuckovich explains. But amidst the walls of beans, there is an undercurrent of meat-yearning. On a refrigerator covered in plastic magnet letters, the words "Meat Ball" are raggedly formed. A cry for help? "I miss meat," Cuckovich admits with guilt...