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...definitive Beatles reunion: of the group (heard working, playing and joking in the studio); of its prime collaborator, George Martin; and of the original Beatlemaniacs. Forty years after John said the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus," 40 summers after the release of Revolver, these one-time-teen fans are now their grandparents' age and - if they make the trip to the appropriately named Mirage, and if the gray-haired hippie in the bleachers is any indication - moist in reverie...
...voting bloc of the lower castes. Modern India should be built on merit, not caste. There are lots of poor families struggling to make a living. I hope that some forward-looking politicians will be able to change India for the better. Mani Madathil Kaarst, Germany Teen Detainees I am truly appalled at how the U.S. - the self-proclaimed protector of democracy and human rights - continues to violate basic human rights at Guantánamo Bay [June 5]. Is there any evidence that detaining and questioning those prisoners has protected the lives of Americans at all? What acute danger...
...parents realized she was planning to rendezvous with--and marry--a West Bank man she had met on MySpace. With countless parents now wondering what kind of liaisons their kids are forging online, law-enforcement agencies and elected officials have begun to step up their efforts to get teen-laden networking sites to improve their safety measures. Attorneys general of 22 states have called on the sites to set more boundaries for interactions between users, and this week Congress is scheduled to hold two days of hearings on how to make the Internet safe for kids. Executives who operate these...
...Cromartie High School, the first of five Japanese NYAFF movies I saw, is director Yudai Yamaguchi?s take on a teen delinquent genre that goes back at least to the 1955 Blackboard Jungle. The setting: a high school with such a rotten history that it has been destroyed (and rebuilt) six times. Seven may be the charm, since one of the students is a decent kid: our hero, Kamiyama (dishy Takamasa Suga). In the first reel, he writes a letter home: "Oh, mom I?m a bit confused. Everyone looks like a yakuza." That?s not quite fair...
...come down to a last, desperate shot) and its luck in finding a complex heroine. Darnellia Russell, the rare black girl on a white team, has dimples, drive and enough problems to fill an afterschool special. The film can't help touching on issues of race, child abuse and teen pregnancy, even as it out-Hoosiers Hoosiers with a real-life parable of improbable victory. Girls have hoop dreams too. And dreams can come true at the final buzzer. Release date: June...