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...this controversial step across the church-state line out of desperation. As elsewhere in the U.S., many of its inner-city public schools are a physical and academic dead zone. In California, Colorado and Oregon, voters have turned down voucher initiatives that would extend school choice statewide because most suburban voters are not that unhappy with their public schools. So programs targeted at minority kids have become the new, more ambiguous school-choice battleground--one on which liberals don't always know which side to take. For some poor children, the chance to go to private school could...
...name his favorite guitar player, his answer is intriguingly atypical. He doesn't name Led Zeppelin's much copied Jimmy Page, though he does allow that Page's "mysterious, unsavory" guitar solos made him think, when he was young, that he too could "channel mysterious, unsavory things into suburban Illinois through my guitar." And he doesn't name Jimi Hendrix, though when Morello was a student at Harvard in the mid-1980s (major: social studies), he sported an impressively expansive Hendrix-style Afro...
Because he planned to act in the film, Tucci asked Scott to co-direct (the two have known each other since high school in suburban New York-- "He was a jock; I was a druggie," says Scott). According to Tucci, the film was truly a collaborative effort. According to Scott, he was just helping flesh out his friend's vision: "We'd often look at each other on the set--4 a.m., 100 [degrees]--and say, 'How do people do this alone...
...glad to say that I too am thoroughly unacquainted with the world of suffering. Growing up in a comfortable suburban home, I was raised on the belief that hard work and integrity of character guarantees success and reward; and the belief held true. I now find myself enjoying the freedom of college life. All my needs are provided for, and my only obligation is to continue to work hard as I have done in the past...
White, unmarried parents 26% Fathers, age 18-29 24% Perot voters, age 30-49 22% White parents, age 18-29 22% Suburban...