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...immediate victims of the new welfare rhetoric will be the children of poor single women. They're the ones who will have to face the restigmatization of "illegitimacy" -- in the playground, where it will really hurt. They're the ones who will come home to empty apartments while their mothers process words and flip burgers. And, as dozens of disappointing welfare-to-work programs have shown, the low-wage jobs available to welfare recipients are hardly a cure for poverty. The net result of forcing welfare mothers to work will be a further decline in wages for everyone -- as desperate...
...whole series revels in misanthropy; it parades the bullish stupidity of your average teenager, your average parent, your average everybody. The only things these movies romanticize are cars, cigarettes (each character smokes about three packs a minute) and the cliches of old teen pix. "Rumble at the playground tonight!" The young actors, children of the children of the '50s, might be speaking Old English, but they give the words an authentic spin. They know that the '50s was the cauldron in which the modern language of rebellion was forged...
...Gong Li -- stopped by to promote their films and to underline, by their presence, the absence of any world- class megastars except for Clint Eastwood, who was serving as president of this year's festival jury. Even the weather, which brings more folks to this Cote d'Azur playground than cinephiles would care to admit, was only moderately fabulous. It appeared as if the 47th edition of the movie industry's biggest annual deal-fest would tiptoe into history with a sigh and a shrug...
...contained," explains Curtis Bryant, in-patient director at St. Luke. After treatment, patients are reassigned and put under direct supervision of local bishops. St. Luke insists that none are placed in positions where they will come into contact with children. What happens if a patient is seen cruising a playground? "We consider that a relapse," says Dr. Stephen Montana, director of St. Luke's out-patient services. There is no guarantee against recidivism. Indeed, at the center run by the Servants of the Paraclete, several former patients committed abuses after their release. One of these was James Porter, a patient...
...President, who once taught constitutional law, wants the concept of reasonableness balanced to conform with today's conditions. "There are many rights ((guaranteed by)) our laws . . . but ((victims)) have certain rights that we are letting slip away," says Clinton. "They include the right to go out to the playground and the right to walk to the corner without fear of gunfire, the right to go to school safely, and to sit by an open window...