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...here that it is a nightmare to explain, and even harder to explain away. The film is crossbred from many pieces. Sometimes it feels like a edgy suburban television drama like "My So-Called Life," about the trials of being a teenager and the equal trials of being a parent. Sometimes it seems to be an adult indie flick, in which bizarre actions have a way of seeming less strange when you look at them up close. Sometimes it's just a pitch-black comedy about the mean things people say to each other when they don't care...
...wherever it is shown; the painting uses children?s handprints to depict infamous child murderer Myra Hindley. With headliners like these, it?s not surprising that the museum has slapped an "R" rating on the exhibit, and no one under the age of 16 will be admitted without a parent. Of course, most parents will probably stand, flabbergasted, as their children blithely flit through the exhibit, listening to Eminem on their headphones...
...right in this town to search our kids without a parent permission," said Lawrence Adkins at a meeting of parents in the Cambridge Community Center on June...
Challengers include Alfred B. Fantini, a longtime Committee member who lost his seat in the 1997 election; Alvin E. Thompson, a former State House representative who lost his seat in 1998 to Jarrett T. Barrios '90; and Nancy Walser, a parent and author who "wrote the book" on the school system, A Parents Guide to Cambridge Schools. Melody L. Brazo, Shawn M. Burke, Donald Harding, Michael Harshbarger, Elizabeth Tad Kenney, and Jamisean F. Patterson are also running for the board...
According to surveys, about half of parents don't grant allowances, and most others do it the way I have--haphazardly. Its proponents argue that an allowance can help a child learn about money, that he has to make choices among the many things he wants and must work and save for them. But there's a downside: an allowance can be a crutch for a parent. As long as the child can afford to pay for something--say, a barbed-wire wrist tattoo--a parent might be more reluctant...