Word: malle
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...cornfield along with the cops. I still thank God for a small detective named Len Fenerman. He assigned two uniforms to take my dad into town and have him point out all the places I'd hung out with my friends. The uniforms kept my dad busy in one mall for the whole first day. No one had told Lindsey, who was thirteen and would have been old enough, or Buckley, who was four and would, to be honest, never fully understand...
Just across the Mall is the National Museum of American History—also part of the Smithsonian. Its newest exhibit, which is of comparable size to the one about Sept. 11, shows the historical progression of different families in one house. Maybe, just maybe, the National Museum of American History, which has both a nicer venue for special exhibits and is visited more frequently than the Arts and Industries Building, would have been a better setting for the flag and photographs...
...swarms of Americans celebrating a holiday the terrorists hate, any evil-doer with half a brain would be deterred by the past week's massive mobilization of police and military personnel. New York, Washington and other potential hotspots will be jammed to bursting with law enforcement; on the Mall in D.C. alone there will be 2,000 security workers...
...genre also demands chases, to which Spielberg brings his inexhaustible ingenuity: Anderton literally car hopping on the skyscraper highway, dragging his favorite precog (spooky Samantha Morton) through a mall, eluding his nemesis Witwer (inevitable star-to-be Colin Farrell) in a car factory, where a vehicle is assembled with our hero inside. But Spielberg is also keen to distinguish movie spectacle from moral dilemmas. Faced with irresistible impulse, he says, we can choose to resist it. Try to think of the last film in which the hero has the chance to kill a man he believes abducted and murdered...
...teens--is key to teaching them how to live within their means as adults. Use the start of an allowance (or a raise) to discuss what your kids are expected to do: Are they responsible for buying their own candy at the movies, their own CDs at the mall? Are they expected to save some and give some away? (For youngsters, I've recently come across a terrific plastic piggy bank called the Money Savvy Pig. It's clear (so the kids can see money adding up) and has four slots, one each for saving, spending, investing and donating...