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...Just how unethical is it, they wonder, to outsmart a system they feel is itself unfair? Parents contend that they are penalized if they save for college or their children take part-time jobs, since such savings reduce the amount of aid they can qualify for. Families who rent their homes may now appear just as rich on paper as mansion dwellers. Whites grumble about affirmative action; top students complain that only athletes get big scholarships...
...Paris. At night, the couple returns to the working-class suburb of Sarcelles where, across from a busy train station, they live in a three-bedroom apartment with their daughter and son, ages 3 years and 18 months. The flat is cozy but small, typical of the low-rent units constructed back in the 1950s to house French families repatriated from North Africa. Together, the Bentzes take home $3,600 a month, not a lot for a family of four. Yet they are thinking of having a third child -- and, unlike many American parents, are not fretting about the potential...
While Cokane represents Dickensian farce, Lickcheese the rent-collector (John Drabik) represents Dickensian sentiment. Shaw is clumsy in his treatment of Lickcheese, and makes himself a little ridiculous by his continuous harping on the theme of hungry children and weeping women. The older Shaw knew how to tread lightly over such subjects...
...fund sexism. Don't purchase any magazine, rent any video or buy any piece of music that portrays women in a sexually degrading or violent manner...
...after a shocking 2-0 loss (well, losses aren't too shocking these days) against Boston College yesterday in Chestnut Hill, the Crimson has moved out of its palace on the hills and into a low-rent, run-down apartment in Funk City...