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Swing voters have always been elusive creatures, changing shape from election to election. The profile and assumptions about them in one contest seldom apply to the next one. This axiom is proving true again with that most-talked-about slice of American political demography: the Soccer Mom. Since 9/11, polls suggest she has morphed into Security Mom--and that development is frightening to Democrats, who have come to count on women to win elections. She used to say she would never allow a gun in her house, but now she feels better if her airline pilot has one. She wanted...
Listen to what these moms had to say last week, as Washington put the country on orange alert for the fourth time in a year. Jillian Kelly, a 43-year-old single mother and owner of a Chicago-area massage-therapy business, used to consider the Homeland Security Department "a joke." Now she's worried it isn't getting enough money. Netaya Anbar, a 45-year-old Pelham, N.Y., mother of three and still an avowed Democrat, worries about the erosion of civil liberties but at the same time recognizes that it could protect her family. "I'm very torn...
Unfortunately, no breaks are available in Greenock, a depressed shipbuilding town in Scotland, where all the yards are closed. And for a kid nearing his 16th birthday, Liam has a lot of problems. His beloved mom is in jail for drug dealing. Her boyfriend and father are brutal small-time crooks trying to get Liam to induce her back into the criminal life even before her sentence is up. His refusal leads to a beating--and to dreams of revenge and rescue...
...more lucrative delivery business: a side order of drugs. He has a friend, Pinball, who is comically, often stupidly, out of control and needs a lot of career guidance. Sometimes it's a touching film, especially in the scenes dealing with Liam's sister Chantelle (Annmarie Fulton), a single mom bravely struggling to raise her baby decently in an environment full of crime and beset by hopelessness...
...late, though, for eight-year-old Chia-ru. Her father, Tang Se-hu, says she is still trying to comprehend the loss of her mother and misses the trips she used to make to the hospital where, he says, "her mom was always working." He adds, "she knows her mom helped care for people and saved lives." When she's older she will no doubt wish that someone had taken more care with her mother's life...