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Just across the street from the Clayground pottery store and right next door to Winsor Tap's Hot Lunches and Liquors, Jeffrey Curley's home was in the midst of a classic Cambridge neighborhood...
...about P.S. 41? Well, buying extra classroom materials is one thing; buying extra teachers is another. When directed toward items like staff salaries, educators say, private funds can widen the disparity between schools in poor neighborhoods that rely on government funds, and those in middle-class communities that can tap off-the-books parental money. Even some parent advocates got uneasy over the New York parents' brazenness. "The running of public schools should be the responsibility of the public through tax monies," said Lois Jean White, president of the national PTA. Other critics weren't so diplomatic...
...acts carry all or most of the zing Shaw wrote into them. This is owing more to McConnell, who makes a convincing transition from querulous selfconsciousness to defiant independence. Bouffier's a little too wooden-faced (a kind of Bob Dole for the stage), and doesn't quite tap into the semi-tragic nature of his character's self-imprisonment, though the contrast still comes through starkly enough when juxtaposed with Eliza's growing self-awareness. Ron Ritchell, as a rather subdued, Dr. Watsonish Colonel Pickering, unfortunately comes off as a gentler but paler copy of Higgins...
...Michael Schiffer's script the task is pretty much left to a cowboy and a lady: U.S. Army Colonel Tom Devoe (George Clooney) and nuclear scientist Julia Kelly (Nicole Kidman). They race around the globe (the film was shot in 10 countries), kill villains, crash cars and tap on computers...
...generation also still loves a good crisis, which is a trait that shrewd marketers have begun to tap. John Ferrell, the president of FerrellCalvillo Communications, notes that traditional feel-good campaigns for financial services have failed to nudge boomers into saving for retirement. So his New York City agency created humorous shock-tactic spots for the Alliance Capital Management group, a giant investment firm with nearly $200 billion under management. In one, a husband tells his startled wife they can't retire because they haven't saved any money and advises her to earn some by mowing neighborhood lawns...