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...want to make busing students as competitive as non-busing, non-Boston public school kids," he says. "We also want to define the idea of merit and whether it should be based on standardized testing, and if so, which test ought to be used...
...that Pitt and the script cheat a little with his character, not investing him with quite the fanatical glitter a political gunman ought to exhibit. But you have to balance that against the reality of Ford's work--no one half-suppresses, half-reveals strong feelings better than he does--and director Alan J. Pakula's analogous strengths. Pakula (Klute, Presumed Innocent) develops his story patiently, without letting its tensions unravel. At a moment when everyone is saying the studios have lost the knack for making solid, broadly appealing entertainments, The Devil's Own suggests the skill may be only...
American political workers go to Russia to assist Boris Yeltsin in his campaign. The cia sends agents to foreign countries to influence their governments. As long as the U.S. plays such a big role in determining the fate of people in other countries, those nations ought to have half a chance to say, through donations, which party controls the U.S. government and what it does to them. YISHAN WONG, age 18 St. Paul, Minnesota...
...good friends before you ask somebody for their brain," he jokes as he arrives, giving an elderly nun a big grin and a hug. At certain times, Snowdon says, he feels as if he never left parochial school. One such moment occurred when a nun recently suggested that he ought to think about trimming his shoulder-length hair...
...Jarre) is good about not making too much of this relationship, subtly foreshadowing the betrayal that must come, but allowing these figures room to draw normal human breath. "Pitt and the script cheat a little with his character, not investing him with quite the fanatical glitter a political gunman ought to exhibit," says TIME's Richard Schickel. "But you have to balance that against the reality of Ford?s work?no one half-suppresses, half-reveals strong feelings better than he does?and director Alan J. Pakula?s analogous strengths. Pakula develops his story patiently, without letting its tensions unravel...