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...face of it, the Oxnard shooting is another tragic case of a gun-toting kid with inappropriate access to a deadly weapon. But this incident has implications beyond gun control laws (California’s are some of the nation’s strongest). The killer, 14-year-old Brandon McInerney, murdered King not because he had access to a gun, but because King had declared his “abnormal” sexuality both explicitly and, allegedly, by dressing and acting in what was perceived to be an inappropriately feminine manner...
...She’s] really become a mother to me—she is a civil rights leader in this city,” Connolly says of Burns. “Here she is helping a kid in his 30s get elected to the city council. We cross every conceivable line...
...creators of “Charlie Bartlett” seem to have had an elaborate mental checklist of every high school movie cliché known to man and, item by tedious item, set out to check them off. Hopelessly troubled rich kid expelled from private school and forced to transfer to public? Check. A beating on the first day by a tattooed punk with a mohawk? Check. Love affair with the beautiful (but feisty!) principal’s daughter? Subsequent power struggle with said principal for remainder of the movie? Film resolves in boy overcoming his family issues, getting...
...Classic Princeton offense works to no avail. The Tigers run down the shot clock but can't get an open look. Off the rebound, the Crimson drive back down the court but freshman Kyle Fitzgerald can't put in the easy gimme layup. C'mon kid. [Harvard 6, Princeton...
...much cartographic flux does to our maps, but what it does to our language. Must we live in a world with both a DMV and a DMZ? Did a globe with one Congo have to confuse things with two? And after I worked so hard when I was a kid remembering to call Russia the Soviet Union, was it really sporting to wait till I reached adulthood to tell me to forget...