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...Count on Me," Linney takes the lead as Sammy, a small-town bank manager who was orphaned as a girl and who's still experiencing growing pains as a single mom with a little boy (Rory Culkin), a wayward younger brother (Mark Ruffalo) and a frustrating new boss (Matthew Broderick). In the process, Linney produces some of the year's most indelible acting moments. Watch her drive alone from an ill-advised rendezvous with her boss and see the emotions illuminate Linney's face like flickering candles - a smile, a jolt of sadness, a surge of joy. "She made...
...friction to hear stories of students like Rosemont fourth-grader Briana Hopkins. Though her mother dropped out of college after two years and her elder brother forsook higher education for a job as a maintenance worker, Briana spent last summer taking enrichment classes at Coppin State and tells her mom how she wants to go off to college one day. Says Briana's mother JoAnn: "If going to college had been stressed earlier, it could have been totally different for me and my son." And now it may be for her daughter...
While Erin Brockovich, the fact-based role of a single mom crusading against an energy company, is remarkably short on his stylistic touches ("It was an exercise in control for me," he says), Traffic is pure Soderbergh. Visually eclectic and alternately jarring and sentimental, it jump-cuts energetically among three stories. While Douglas' character juggles his public duties and private anguish at home in Cincinnati, Ohio, Catherine Zeta-Jones stars as a pregnant San Diego housewife who takes charge of the family business when her drug-lord husband is arrested, and Benicio Del Toro plays a Mexican cop lured into...
...MOM, TELL HIM NOT TO STOP While most of us have suffered the mindless wrath of a schoolyard bully, a study to be released in the journal Psychological Bulletin indicates teasing can be constructive. According to Professor Dacher Keltner of the University of California, Berkeley, teasing is a form of playful provocation. Most kids do it to show affection and learn social rules. By middle school two-thirds of teasing is done to build friendships...
...counties were yet to report, the mood in the mansion was optimistic. Shortly thereafter it was jubilant as, at 2:15 a.m., Florida was called for Bush and the Governor became, in the eyes of the networks and the nation, the President-elect. He hugged his dad, kissed his mom and embraced his drained and relieved brother. Then he took the congratulatory phone call from Vice President Gore...