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...Secret Sunshine. That's the literal Chinese translation for Miryang, a town to which the thirtysomething widow Shin-ae (Jeon Do-yeon) has retreated with her young son Jun. In Miryang, people are friendly and compulsively helpful, especially a garage mechanic (Korean superstar Song Kang-ho) who is clearly, clumsily smitten by Shin-ae. She needs all the help she can get when another tragedy befalls her. She joins a Christian fellowship and indulges the mechanic's devotion. But her mind and spirit spiral into disarray as her behavior becomes more destructive and self-destructive...
...evidence that NCLB is working, fans of the law love to point to schools that have reversed a long record of failure. Not far from Blaine, in a crime-infested part of town, sits M. Hall Stanton Elementary, everybody's favorite Philadelphia story. In 2002, only 12% of Stanton's fifth-graders were reading at grade level, and the third- and fourth-graders were engaged in what teachers called "gang wars." By 2006, 70% of fifth-graders were proficient readers, and the school was a model of decorum and learning, hitting its AYP goals three years in a row without...
...comes in the form of Levi Richards, a lean wide receiver/defensive back out of the small southern Illinois town of Newton...
...coalition's own 2006 report card on the Daley plan applauds the effort to build more permanent housing, but says the stock of affordable housing is actually flattening or shrinking as rich developers gobble up empty space and redevelop once ramshackle areas of town. The study, released last fall, says Daley "grossly underestimates the demand for homeless services in Chicago," and charges that "thousands of people are likely to end up abandoned and only a limited number of people helped...
...wake in a mosque; fearful of attacks, many of them refuse to allow wakes. Nor could Azhour hold the wake in their former neighborhood, where their old friends and neighbors could attend. So she invited a handful of family members to the home of an uncle who lives across town. Nobody came...