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Some argue that such pressures are appropriate because the process is political by design. After all, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention chose the Senate rather than the Supreme Court as the trier of presidential impeachments...
...make this last film, she declined Lars von Trier's offer of the lead role in Breaking the Waves, which earned Emily Watson an Oscar nomination as the simple Scottish girl who wills her paraplegic husband back to health. "Having lived with a father who was crippled for 17 years," Bonham Carter says, "I didn't buy the miracle at the end. It was a tough decision." She doesn't regret it. "I couldn't have done it. Emily Watson is much better than I would have been...
...drug-free student at New Trier High. I acknowledge the use of marijuana by New Trier students but not in the numbers stated in your article, which said three-fifths of the student body "smoke pot." New Trier's student drug problem is in no way as great as you portrayed it. SHAWN SOCOLOFF Glencoe, Illinois...
...should have said three-fifths of New Trier students have smoked pot at least once...
Before she caught her kids, Emily attended several meetings of Parent Alliance for Drug and Alcohol Awareness, which is linked to the New Trier school district. "I remember thinking these parents seemed so radical about marijuana," she says. Now she wonders whether random searches of lockers and mandatory drug testing ought to be introduced at school, two options Superintendent Bangser regards as unnecessary. But while she still considers the tone of PADAA too apocalyptic, she finds other parents too lackadaisical. "There's a definite head-in-the-sand attitude here," she says. "People figure our kids' SAT scores...