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...machismo-fueled abuse and a relatively poor record of success, tough-love programs for juvenile offenders are now getting another kick in the teeth. A coalition of savvy Florida college students, civil rights activists and politicians are protesting the death earlier this year of a 14-year-old boy in a rural North Florida boot camp, alleging not just abuse but a cover-up that is proving a major embarassment for Florida Governor Jeb Bush in his last year in office. Thursday evening, Bush's Department of Law Enforcement Secretary, Guy Tunnell, who established the boot camp during his tenure...
...hours after arriving at a juvenile boot camp for stealing his grandmother's car and violating probation. A local coroner says sickle cell trait, not an altercation with boot camp guards, killed Anderson. But an eerily silent surveillance video shows Bay County deputies restraining, kicking and punching the boy, who at times appeared limp and unable to comply. The results of a second autopsy remain secret, but at least one coroner involved says the youth did not die of sickle cell, or any other natural causes...
...hyper-popular, American Idol-esque reality TV show “American Dreamz,” from which this light and funny new satire of American life written, produced, and directed by Paul Weitz (“In Good Company,” “About a Boy,” and “American Pie”) gets its title. The ridiculousness of the song should give a sense of the SNL-like quality of the movie, which revels in its hilarious and biting satire of American life. The movie parodies everything from terrorists to America?...
...marriage takes place, much to everyone’s dismay, and Polly and Boy head abroad to live in poverty and social exile. Lady Montdore is left embittered and bored...
...Montdore finds a new meaning in life—the pursuit of her own beauty. She spends hours each day in steam baths and facial masks, and for the first time, she is happy. By the time Polly returns to England, unhappy in her marriage with the perpetually unfaithful Boy, Lady Montdore has forgotten all former unpleasantness. She has a comically indifferent reconciliation with her only daughter and the novel closes with a most unorthodox arrangement of lovers...