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...talented Ang Lee has directed this film about uneasy family relationships in the restless, promiscuous culture of the 1970s with crystalline precision. As the leaders of two archly funny but disturbingly bleak suburban clans, Kevin Kline, Joan Allen and Sigourney Weaver give refreshingly honest performances, but the film's ending sadly offers their characters no hint of redemption. The ice storm in this film, as a natural symbol of change and the wiping away of sins, is like Noah's flood without the rainbow. --Erwin I. Rosinberg...
Clearly Baltimore faces expenses its suburban peers don't. With many of its schools in high-crime areas, the Baltimore system spends more than $5 million a year to field its own sworn--and armed--police force of 112 personnel, whose overtime pay alone would be enough to provide the starting salaries of two dozen full-time teachers. But the city must also pay the routine expenses faced by every school system, the largest of which is always salaries. Last year Baltimore spent $260.4 million to pay teachers and other staff members associated with regular instruction. It paid its special...
...World War II, the city underwent the first phase of an amazingly swift transformation. The war brought an influx of poor blacks from the South and poor whites from Appalachia to work in the city's shipyards and aircraft plants. Postwar prosperity, good roads and the rise of the suburban dream triggered an exodus of middle-class whites to adjacent Baltimore County, a migration hastened by the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision, in which the court ruled that segregated schools were unconstitutional. By last year, black children accounted for 85.1% of the city's total enrollment...
...accelerating middle-class flight distilled the city's school population to the point where today more than 70% of students qualify for a free lunch, a standard marker of poverty. Nearly 35% of the city's pupils are absent more than 20 days a year, triple the rate in suburban Baltimore County. Fewer than half the city's ninth-graders passed the Maryland Functional Test in mathematics, which measures only the most basic skills; in Baltimore County, 85% passed...
...sedan? Apparently, an insurance-company actuary hears it. Some big insurers are about to make it more costly to cover big vehicles than small ones. That's a break with the past. The reason? With record numbers of large vehicles like the Ford Expedition and the Chevy Suburban on the road, insurance companies are finding that drivers of the behemoths cause a disproportionate amount of harm to other cars and drivers, resulting in bigger liability payouts...