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...financed vouchers would be a good next step. But with inner-city schools in a state of permanent crisis, lower-income blacks are being drawn increasingly to vouchers as a last best hope for getting at least some of their kids into better schools. "We don't want to tear down the public school system," Sorrell insists. "But we need to give parents choices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEY'LL VOUCH FOR THAT | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

...French and other outsiders; they are less likely to go simple with sentiment. Two handsome films, Jacques Audiard's A Self Made Hero and Arturo Ripstein's Deep Crimson, take a smart, stony-eyed look at chicanery in the '40s. Some cunning insects are on display, and not a tear needs to be shed for them or their victims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: THE THREE FACES OF EVIL | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

These threats to diversity, residents said, result from a proposal by Holmes Realty Trust, which aims to tear down a set of buildings in Central Square to make room for a new seven-story building that would house mainstream retailers...

Author: By Ashley F. Waters, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Residents Discuss Central Square | 10/16/1997 | See Source »

...Diana Ross. The song Never, Never Gonna Give You Up evokes the throb of disco, but in a comely, cooing, classic way; Honest is a soul-baring ballad with an intimate, unadorned sound that leaves Stansfield's voice free to shimmer in the foreground; and I Cried My Last Tear, Last Night is an unabashed I-won't-get-stepped-on-in-relationships call to arms that makes its case passionately but not gratingly. Although the album is a bit polite (it could use some Aretha Franklin-esque gospel fire), it has an easygoing sweetness that's hard to deny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: RETRO SOUL | 10/6/1997 | See Source »

...Shabana Azmi, one of India's most accomplished actresses), Ashok's wife, who has taken a vow of celibacy with her husband to justify her inability to have children. Denied the passion they need by the males in their lives, the two wives begin an affair that threatens to tear the family apart-and undoubtedly raise great controversy in Mehta's homeland...

Author: By Kishan Putta, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Indian Film Catches 'Fire' | 10/3/1997 | See Source »

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