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...lawmaker from San Francisco can't pick her own car. For security reasons, congressional leaders are required to ride in vans or sport-utility vehicles driven by Capitol Hill police. Pelosi, worried about environmental impact, is no longer content to ride in a gas-guzzling black Chevy Suburban. "I want a hybrid," she told TIME last week. A few Governors and mayors have already switched to hybrid cars for their official use. But so far, Pelosi says, security officials have yet to find her a sufficiently up-armored hybrid. U.S. Capitol Police declined to comment on the required specifications...
...When you're slinging pot in your suburban neighborhood to support your kids on your dead husband's meager insurance payout--that's when you can call yourself a desperate housewife. Mary-Louise Parker gave a performance so human and conflicted, you could practically see the needle of her moral compass spinning. Creator Jenji Kohan's writing put the new in nuance, as she drew not only Parker but her various upscale associates (including a surprisingly appealing Kevin Nealon as a stoner accountant) in a way that neither judged nor let them off the hook. The best comic suburban soap...
...generous stipend but a Masters in Education as well!A common quip heard in education schools nowadays is that if we really wanted to “teach for America,” we’d ship the greenhorn college grads back to teach in the rich, suburban schools from which so many originate and send the well-trained suburban teachers off to poorer, urban schools where the students might most benefit from them. Such a strategy is probably impossible, but it underscores a question about TFA that we can’t ignore: why are we sending...
...Carrey are the perfect comic team. Leoni’s character, a desperate housewife trying to keep up appearances as her life falls apart, allows viewers to sympathize with Dick and Jane’s dilemma. The humor of the film lies in the hilarious robbery scenes juxtaposed against suburban normalcy. When Dick and Jane attempt to rob a coffee shop, they also demand two iced mochas and non-fat muffins, with the cashier at gunpoint. It seems as if every movie this holiday season is a remake or adaptation—“King Kong...
...French suburban youth are often Muslim, but being Muslim is not opposed to being French. In the future, a higher percentage of the French population will be Muslim. Does that mean the end of French society? No. That's the thinking of the racist far right. The young protesters want to get a job, be integrated into society and be treated like everyone else. In French fashion, they protest and burn cars, as French people in the past fought against inequality and stormed the Bastille. France's young Arabs are fighting for equality?a French ideal. I hope they succeed...