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...weak idea of tolerance. It has become a moral vacuum. Inspiring teachers are prohibited from discussing their moral or religious convictions with their students, and some students absorb this sour nihilism in dangerous ways. Recently, four teenagers in the Boston area were arrested for plotting a sick, heartless killing spree in their high school. Mass murders, gang activity and violence in public schools are now all too common. When will we learn that students in schools without positive moral aspirations will sink into festering amorality, alienation and even sociopathy...
...employs real hard-core scenes, many of them brutal, to illustrate its story of two gals on the run. Manu (Raffaela Anderson) is a porn star, Nadine (Karen Bach) a hooker with a short fuse. Each woman kills a man, and the two go on a shooting and screwing spree across the arid French landscape. Yet for all its graphic excesses, or because of them, Baise-moi is a serious and original work. It starkly portrays a desperation born of disgust, and then an exultation at lurching into a brief, sociopathic freedom. The movie has something else: a charismatic performance...
...while sprinkling some change in the consumer?s pockets just buys us a little more time. But Bush knows who won in 1992 and who lost. Payouts like extended unemployment benefits may be economically undynamic, and they?re hardly the sort of income likely to inspire a renewed spending spree, but they look good, they feel good, and they keep the class critics away. It was Bush, after all, who said yesterday that "one lay-off was one lay-off too many...
...That spree has been thus far made possible by the economy's one strong spot, housing; rampant mortgage refinancing at lower long-term interest rates (and higher home valuations) has helped consumers restructure their debt and come out ahead a few hundred a month in spending money. But that boom is deflating too, and that extra money will go straight under the mattress if the homeowner starts to worry about his job. (Bad news: announced layoffs hit an eight-year record of 205,975 in July, and the number of people on unemployment rose again last week to 3.17 million...
SULTAN OF BRUNEI Brother's $15 billion spree leads to auction of palatial trimmings. Airbus, anyone...