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...Vicksburg win its parents back? By giving them both a greater say in which elementary schools their children would attend and a greater hand in shaping the district's affairs. Perhaps more important, the district confronted its longtime racial standoff, engaging the black parents and wooing the white parents back into the system...
...writing, Fire and the Baptism, due early next year. It is a community clinging to the traditions of the past while grappling with the pressures of the modern-day South. In A Visitation of Spirits, Kenan writes how a town once bound by the practice of harvesting tobacco by hand withers with mechanization...
...mannequin in the school's red-and-blue uniform presides over a spread of student-made dioramas and papier-mache, painstakingly displayed by Redwood parents in an all-day decorating marathon. On a recent Saturday, the school's choir serenaded shoppers while a troop of parent volunteers was on hand with brochures extolling the virtues of a Redwood education--and urging shoppers to sign up their kids. "I can already see the day when parents of newborns will call me up and say they want to register their kids at Redwood," says principal Butch Newman...
Miramax's co-chairman, Bob Weinstein, should be commended for his sense of humor; he's releasing a movie that savages his own Scream franchise. On the other hand, the movie he's releasing features star Carmen Electra breaking wind. He should be ashamed of himself too. "I appreciate that," says Weinstein. "I'd do penance if I was that religion. Since I'm Jewish, I'll just feel guilty about...
...privatization. How the invisible hand of competition can force efficiency on the laggard ways of government. Well, that was the way it was supposed to go for Louisiana's juvenile-prison system. But it didn't work out, and now even some Republicans, the champions of privatization, are backing away from the idea. "The profit motive works well in some places," says Republican Governor Mike Foster. "I don't think it works well in prisons...