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...film before us. Her goals of escaping a small town are relatable, and the familial troubles that haunt her broken life at home make her instantly sympathetic.This is how “American Teen” moves beyond its updated “Breakfast Club” scenario. Burstein manages to escape the limitations that ensnare the social stereotypes she examines, crafting a wholly believable world in which typically overblown high school problems are carefully counterbalanced by issues that are far more serious. Hannah lives with her grandmother because her mother has been diagnosed with severe depression, a sickness that...

Author: By Bram A. Strochlic, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: American Teen | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

...problems can easily be imagined for any other individual with dietary restrictions. For example, Jewish kashrut and Islamic halal both restrict the consumption of pork. Would pork grown in vitro or tissues that taste like pork but are different from any living animal fall under the restrictions? The same scenario can be imagined for Hindus who don’t eat beef. An even more extreme version could be imagined if an individual wished to grow and eat human flesh in vitro. Although a societal rebuke against cannibalism is understandable, can it really be said that eating tissue from...

Author: By Steven T. Cupps | Title: Meat in a Box | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

...never seen the movie before I tried out. I got a breakdown of the scenario the book writers were conceiving, and that sort of told us where the songs would...

Author: By Erin C. Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with David A. Javerbaum '93 | 4/24/2008 | See Source »

...votes of Florida and Michigan - two states that moved up their primary dates in violation of party rules and subsequently lost their delegates as a result. Should it reach a point at which the fate of those delegates would determine the outcome, that would pave the way for the scenario Democrats fear most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tell Me How This Ends? | 4/24/2008 | See Source »

...there were any true believers in such a rosy scenario still to be found within the Democratic party, they were likely disabused of that notion by the results of Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary. After six weeks of an increasingly negative contest, Clinton's solid, 10-point victory almost guarantees that the Democratic race will continue into June. The once-gleeful pundits now find themselves turning their rental cars toward Indiana while Republicans marvel at their luck and Democrats try to game out a resolution that doesn't involve a convention-floor battle in Denver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Primary with No End | 4/23/2008 | See Source »

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