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...House Committee block grants, Porter says, "I think, they're good, but they ought to remain flexible...
...caught her kids, Emily attended several meetings of Parent Alliance for Drug and Alcohol Awareness, which is linked to the New Trier school district. "I remember thinking these parents seemed so radical about marijuana," she says. Now she wonders whether random searches of lockers and mandatory drug testing ought to be introduced at school, two options Superintendent Bangser regards as unnecessary. But while she still considers the tone of PADAA too apocalyptic, she finds other parents too lackadaisical. "There's a definite head-in-the-sand attitude here," she says. "People figure our kids' SAT scores are so high they...
...really wanted someone to blame for Lowry's crash, it could have gone back and figured out why no one had done anything following the earlier, identical mistakes. "Cross-connecting the rods is an easy mistake to make," an Air Force report warned after the 1986 foul-up. "We ought to fix it so they can't be connected wrong," a second said. The Air Force ignored that recommendation and even failed to warn its mechanics of the danger...
...Maybe we ought to just forget it--bury romantic comedy in the graveyard of genres dearly departed and move on. It was unquestionably the loveliest invention of the movies' golden age. But ours is not the golden age of anything--certainly not of romance or of high wit, surely not of that tolerant class consciousness that animated so many of those 1930s comedies. You know the old drill: rich boy meets poor girl (or vice versa), the disparities in their backgrounds--the very thing that first attracted them--sunders their romance until, defying convention, they get together at last...
...stunning revival of Chicago that just opened on Broadway ought to win over any doubters. In a staging based on last season's acclaimed concert version by the enterprising Encores! series, Walter Bobbie's production is sleek, spare and diamond hard. The story of Roxie Hart is told in a series of fiercely stylized, irony-laced musical episodes. In the Cell Block Tango, Roxie's jailbird peers sing of the men they've bumped off. A slick defense attorney makes his entrance crooning "All I care about is love," accompanied by feather-waving chorines. In the climactic trial, Roxie beats...