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...largely poor urban district has already had 19 reports of weapons possession and 42 assaults by kids in kindergarten or first grade. Last year at the McDaniel elementary school alone, there were 21 assaults in the first two months of school, including one by a kindergartner who punched a pregnant teacher in the belly. Vallas adopted a get-tough policy and suspended 33 kindergarten students in the first six weeks of last year, up from just one in the same period the year before, earning him local notoriety as a "kindergarten cop." This year he has chosen instead to send...
...jeep and a small bus. The vehicles shuttle passengers to the beach, where a dinghy ferries them to a white-and-green fishing boat. Some 85 people board the boat - two Egyptians, a Tunisian, a Libyan, an Ethiopian and the rest Somalis, including 13 women, one of them pregnant. They occupy every centimeter of space. This is not how Abdi Salan - who doesn't know how to swim - had imagined the crossing. But nothing has turned out as he'd expected, and he feels lucky to have his cramped spot on the peeling deck...
...Everything goes swimmingly until Bertram makes it clear that he has no interest in his adoptive sister and runs away from court instead of marrying her. He leaves a mocking note, which she takes as a challenge: if she can get an ancestral ring from his finger and become pregnant with his child, he’ll marry...
...titular 11-year-old girl in India who, unbeknownst to her, is afflicted with AIDS. The filmmakers follow her as her mother breaks the news that she has the disease that killed her father, and that eventually she will die of it as well. The film relies on pregnant pauses to punctuate the gravity of Nisha’s situation, exacerbated by the great social stigma attached to AIDS. Her mother looks on while Nisha is dancing or playing with her peers, with a desperation that haunts...
Most memorable lie you’ve ever told a TF: My teenage sister is pregnant, my father is in jail and my mom might be deported so I had to move to Lowell and take over the family business. That’s why I haven’t been to Chinese class in six to eight weeks. But I’ve been thinking about the Orient every...