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This is no glorified babysitting service. Mom can't swing by with a sob story about the pressures of modern parenting, unload her brood and zip off to the spa. The screening questions are intense, and parents--75% of whom earn less than $10,000 a year--have to map out a recovery plan. If there's a hint of abuse, a call goes out to the county child-welfare authorities...
...crowd went in expecting sugary confections like the summer radio staple "Steal My Sunshine"--and it's pretty safe to assume it did--a surprise was waiting inside the Paradise. It began with Styles of Beyond, an underground hip-hop group from L.A. While DJ Cheapshot of SOB (an unfortunate self-inflicted acronym) laid down some tight beats, the audience seemed to be waiting for more radio-friendly action. Which is not to say that Styles of Beyond is that far from national exposure--MCs Ryu and Tak Bir's smooth rapping styles foretell a possible MTV explosion some time...
...movie's credits list you only as "Narrator." Let's also say the symptoms of that condition include near terminal insomnia and an unsatisfiable urge for catalog shopping. Might you not then join a support group for the victims of TB or testicular cancer, just so you could hug, sob and generally surface some feelings, even if you don't actually have one of those diseases...
...seniors especially. Our lives are never going to turn out quite the way we planned for them to. We will need our friends this reading period, this summer, next year, the next fifty years. We will need them to listen to our problems, to absorb the tears that we sob, to celebrate our triumphs with us. We will need to do the same for them, for friends are people who both need us and are needed by us. We will need to remind them how incredibly strong they are and how much we love and admire them. And we will...
...needed any help. She looked vaguely familiar like someone that I had stood with in the fly-by line or had sat next to in the dining hall. She looked up at me with red eyes, and a slightly pathetic grin and began to pour forth her sob story...