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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Center was holding a planning session. Seated around the table were lawyers, community leaders, probation administrators and Cory Kadamani, one of the center's creators. Cory is 17 years old; he serves as both volunteer and employee at the center, a project of a well-regarded community organization called Youth Force. Staffed and run by young people, the justice center was created to solve neighborhood disputes that might otherwise end up in court...
...police," he said, "but I know if I'm being chased down by a Blood or I'm about to get robbed and the police come, I'm overjoyed. There will be people who won't like it, but the majority will." Former gang members who now work for Youth Force, he suggested, should bring their newfound conflict-resolution skills to the rink. "If you want full participation," Cory insisted, "you need to reach out to the gangs themselves. Just about all gangs began with a positive purpose. If you go back to the positive origins, you can enlist them...
Back in the Bronx homeless shelter where he lives with his mother, his half sister and her father, Cory slept well, as he has since he got his high school-equivalency diploma last year and hooked up with Youth Force. The group has reintroduced purpose and structure into his life. Although Cory never knew his birth father, he began life in a comfortable home in a middle-class neighborhood. But the family became mired in a succession of financial and legal difficulties that dragged Cory into a world of trouble. Often left to his own devices, he dropped...
...eyed innocence and a hyper-sexualized tendency to vamp. The comedic effect, when contrasted with the stiffly suited business executives of the male chorus, is dazzling, and the introduction of the girls' chorus to the audience--the songs and dance surrounding "Three Little Maids From School Are We" and "Youth Must Have Its Fling" are uproarious--make clear the fact that serious self-restraint is no match for the power of girlish glee...
...canny and generally successful appeal to the youth market, this film streamlines Henry James's notoriously dense novel, bringing its melodramatic and erotic undertones to the forefront. A well-bred but dowerless English girl (Helena Bonham-Carter), secretly engaged to an equally impecunious journalist (Linus Roache), persuades her lover to court a young American heiress dying of TB (Alison Elliott). The plot thickens as the three take a pleasure trip to Venice. The scenes in Italy are lovely, and the three stars give superb performances--esp. Bonham-Carter, who brilliantly captures the complexities of her character...