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This act, passed by the House on May 8, is currently under review by the Senate Judiciary Committee. It aims to "combat violent youth crime and increase accountability for juvenile criminal offenses" by subjecting juveniles accused of committing serious felonies to adult trials. The Act earmarks $1.5 billion over the next three years in "Juvenile Accountability Block Grants" to help states strengthen their juvenile justice systems on the condition that states which receive the money prosecute juveniles fifteen and older as adults where serious violent crimes such as murder and rape are concerned...
Some stars age gracefully. Others use every means in their power to prolong youth by focusing on its companions: beauty and desirability. Still others fade out of sight. But JON VOIGHT has chosen a fourth route. He has embraced his outer homeliness. Voight, 58, has come a long way since he played Rolf in Broadway's original Sound of Music, or even since his Oscar-winning turn as the archetypal '70s-sensitive guy in Coming Home. In Anaconda, Heat and U-Turn, Voight has proved he can be as scrofulous and evil as the next bad guy. But it takes...
...sounds like Art of Noise meets the laughter from Josh Wink's house record "Don't Laugh," meets, well, Duran Duran. It is a slow and "trippy" number, with LeBon's muted voice welcoming the listener to Medazzaland, whatever Medazzaland is. This is not the Duran Duran of our youth; it is, instead, a slowed down electronic journey to an indeterminate place. Although it doesn't get us gyrating in the aisles, it'll keep you listening, if only to question, what caper the boys have gotten themselves involved...
...reason Duran Duran fails to tap into today's music market, and the reason that Medazzaland wont be creeping into the top-10 anytime soon, is that their music isn't really about anything. It does not speak about problems facing today's youth or give voice to female angst. It is purely about fun. If you recall, Duran Duran was always about fun--"Girls on Film" anyone? In a world fueled by skepticism and the desire to attach both cultural and critical meaning to anything and everything, it is too easy to ask what in god's name Medazzaland...
...particularly illuminating scene, the bondmaid Chu, who has been charged since youth with the care of "The Old One," --an ancient and literally undying presence in the house of Wu--must come to terms with his demise. Although she suffered his abuse for years and has developed a keen resentment for the old man as a result, Chu finds herself, in his absence, wandering aimlessly around the palace is the days before her eventual suicide. Lim's portrait of this depressing symbiosis is but one way in which the dichotomy between slave and slave owner is blurred, and often, transcended...